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Die alt- und reichsaramäischen Inschriften, Band 1by Dirk Schwiderski
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 277.00This collected edition presents the texts of the more than 2500 Old and Imperial Aramaic inscriptions (10th-3rd cents. BC) hitherto published; they cover an area extending from Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria and Palestine to Afghanistan. It serves as a reference volume for the concordance, which provides rapid access to the overall context of every reference. Each text is provided with the most important editions and further bibliographical references. The work thus provides scholars with the total corpus of Old and Imperial Aramaic epigraphs. more...
Tel Dan Inscriptionby George Athas
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 170.00The first book-length treatment of the most important, and controversial, inscription found in Israel in recent years. The inscription contains a possible mention of the name 'David' and is thought by many scholars to verify the existence of this king. Contains a full account of the discovery, epigraphic analysis, palaeographical analysis, possible arrangement of the three fragments discovered, textual analysis and historical commentary. It is more thorough in each of these treatments than any preceding discussion, and reviews all of the major theories about the inscription, with a well-considered conclusion.This is a volume 360 in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series and volume 12 in the Copenhagen International... more...
Les manuscrits araméens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie vers 450-332 av. J.-C.by Jan Dusek
BRILL 2007; US$ 290.00This book contains a new epigraphic, philological, legal and historical analysis of the Aramaic manuscripts from the Wadi Daliyeh written in the city of Samaria in the fourth century B.C.E., and shed new light on the history of Samaria and Judaea in the Persian period. more...
Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Periodby John F. Healey
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 210.60In the first centuries AD, although much of the Near East was ruled by Rome, the main local language was Aramaic, and the people who lived inside or on the fringes of the area controlled by the Romans frequently wrote their inscriptions and legal documents in their own local dialects of this language. This book introduces these fascinating early texts to a wider audience, by presenting a representative sample, comprising eighty inscriptions and documents in the following dialects:Nabataean, Jewish, Palmyrene, Syriac, and Hatran. Detailed commentaries on the texts are preceded by chapters on history and culture and on epigraphy and language. The linguistic commentaries will help readers who have a knowledge of Hebrew or Arabic or one of the... more...
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challaby Steven E Fassberg
BRILL 2010; US$ 179.00This work is a unique documentation of the now extinct Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa (modern-day A+ukurca, Turkey). It is based on recordings of the last native speaker of the dialect, who passed away in 2007. In addition to a grammatical description, it contains sample texts and a glossary of the dialect. more...
Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and Samaria between Antiochus III and Antiochus IV Epiphanesby Jan Du'sek; Jan Du Ek; Maria Moog-Grnewald
BRILL 2012; US$ 135.00This book presents a paleographic analysis of the Aramaic and Hebrew inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and their historical background within the historical and political context of Palestine in the Hellenistic period. more...
Retrograde Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionaryby Ruth Sander; Kerstin Mayerhofer
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 67.51Hauptbeschreibung Dieses Wörterbuch dient der Rekonstruktion einzelner Fragmente von Schriftrollen und Inschriften. Während der Arbeit mit unvollständig erhaltenen Quellen etwa aus Qumran stellt sich die Frage, wie verderbte Textstellen zu ergänzen sind. Ist von einem Wort nur der letzte Teil erhalten, kann es mit Hilfe der alphabetisch rückläufig angeordneten Lemmalisten ergänzt werden. Enthalten sind alle hebräischen und aramäischen Texte auf Schriftrollen und Inschriften aus Palästina bis 135 n.Chr. Im Anhang ist der ebenfalls rückläufig angeordnete Wortschatz der Elephantine-Papyri, einschließlich der Achikar-Sprüche, zu finden, die wegen ihres Herkunftsortes eine Ausnahme darstellen. Im Anschluss an Karl Georg Kuhn, der 1958 als erster... more...
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