Bar-Ilan University Press

Arameans; Aramaic and the Aramaic Literary Tradition

Edited by: Michael Sokoloff
The present collection of articles covers a wide range of topics including Aramean history, Aramaic language, literature and paleography. New texts in Egyptian Aramaic, Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, and the modern Aramaic dialect of the Kurdish Jews are published here for the first time. This book will be of value to all those interested in the history of the Ancient Near East, Semitic languages, and Jewish Studies. From the series "Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture."

Additional Book Details

Danacode: 110-10135 ISBN: 965-226-038-x Language: English Pages: 184 Weight: 500 gr Dimensions: 17X25 cm Publication Date: 01/1983 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

Second Revised and Expanded Edition

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.

Addenda: Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period

A Dictionary of Judean Aramaic

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