Dictionaries

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic was the language spoken and written by Jews in parts of what are now Iraq and Iran from the third to the tenth centuries C.E., corresponding to the Talmudic and Geonic Periods.

Contains the Aramaic vocabulary of the Jewish literary and epigraphic sources of Eretz Israel from the third century C.E. until the Arab Conquest, including Palestinian Talmud, Midrashim, Targumim and synagogue inscriptions.

Yonatan Ratosh's thousands of lexical innovations are dealt with here from grammatical and semantic viewpoints. A detailed introduction presents theoretical issues concerning lexical innovations, authorship attribution and Ratosh's lexical enterprise. The

This is the first modern Hebrew dictionary to the Hebrew Bible. A previous edition published 20 years ago comprised 3 volumes (alef-tet).

Judean Aramaic is the Aramaic dialect of the documents that were composed in Judea between c. 150 B.C.E.- 200 C.E. The texts in this dialect come from various sites in the Dead Sea region, the vicinity of Jerusalem, and from Tannaitic sources (Mishna, Tos

Gives a detailed analysis of etymological issues: citations of sources and translations chronologically and semantically arranged, Hellenistic, Roman and juristic papyrological sources compared, phonology and morphology of rabbinic Graecitas and its diale