Aramaic

• "The Distinction between Holy and Profane in Targum Onkelos" (Hebrew), Megadim 43 (2005), pp. 73–86.

by Nili Samet

Administration of Achaemenid Egypt

by Damien Agut-Labordère

dans B. Jacobs et R. Rollinger (eds), A Companion to the Achaemenid Empire, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden. Parution prévue 9/08/2013.

Administration of Achaemenid Egypt

Plan détaillé. - 1. Administrative Hierarchy. 1.1. The Satrap. 1.2. High... more Administration of Achaemenid Egypt

Plan détaillé. - 1. Administrative Hierarchy. 1.1. The Satrap. 1.2. High Administration. 1.3. Local Administration. 2. Specialized Administrations. 2.1. Army, Police, Justice. 2.2. Fiscal Administration, Royal and Gods estate. 2.3. Royal works and crafts. 3. Administration in Multicultural-Context. 3.1. Iranians, Egyptians and others. 3.2. Writing Aramaic and Demotic. 3.3. Satrap and ethnic clashes.

2012 4Q541, Fragment 24 Reconsidered

by Edward Cook

From "Puzzling Out the Past: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Bruce Zuckerman" (ed. Marilyn Lundberg, Steven Fine, and Wayne Pitard; Brill 2012).

"Non-anaphoric Uses of Demonstrative Pronouns in Babylonian Jewish Aramaic", Leshonenu 74 (forthcoming)

by Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal

This paper argues that the demonstrative pronouns in Babylonian Jewish Aramaic, alongside their regular anaphoric... more This paper argues that the demonstrative pronouns in Babylonian Jewish Aramaic, alongside their regular anaphoric uses, form a paradigm of uses which are neither exophoric nor endophoric. Distal and medial demonstratives are used with indefinite references (with the distinction that the former introduce the topics of the narrative unit and the latter the non-topic participants), and proximal demonstratives either introduce known entities (the “recognitial use”) or appear in generic statements. The paper examines the conditions for each of the uses--as compared to similar phenomena in English--and argues that, like the exophoric uses of demonstratives, which introduce entities in the surrounding physical situation, the above-mentioned usages form a paradigm of contrastive uses for presentation of their referents in a narrative.
In addition, this paper considers the historical relationship between the three categories of demonstratives in Aramaic and in Armenian. It also examines the ramifications of this type of study for developing a comparative methodology for manuscript research in order to produce a grammar of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic.

‘The Book of the Words of [Insert Name Here]’: On the Literary Convention of the Incipit as a Pseudepigraphic Mechanism in the Aramaic Scrolls

by Andrew Perrin

Read at the McMaster-Toronto 2012 Scrollery Colloquium; also at the 'Lost Texts' Graduate Conference at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.

It is widely recognized that the authors of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls typically shrouded their tales in... more It is widely recognized that the authors of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls typically shrouded their tales in pseudepigraphic garb and exhibited a perennial interest in the production and transmission of ancestral booklore. The present study explores the literary convention of the incipit in light of these wider concerns. Throughout the Aramaic Scrolls incipits introduce entire compositions as well as putative ‘texts’ within narratives. Comparative philological analysis of this literary convention reveals that the incipits of the Aramaic Scrolls feature strikingly similar literary-linguistic idioms. However, it is equally apparent that that these seeming common elements were uniquely patterned by individual authors to achieve various levels of pseudepigraphic authority for their ‘new’ works. It is suggested that the commonalities in this literary convention should inform how we conceive of the scribal milieu(s) from which the Aramaic Scrolls emerged. In light of these findings, the article concludes with a revised proposal of the literary function of the title “A Copy of the Writing of the Words of Noah” in 1QapGen 5:29.

Review of : SASS, B., MARZAHN, J. - Aramaic and Figural Stamp Impressions on Bricks of the Sixth Century B.C. from Babylon. (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 127). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2010, BiOr 68 (2011), 606-611

by Mario Fales

Sorry, general diffusion forbidden by the Journal !

1997 Aramaic Language and Literature

by Edward Cook

Appeared in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (ed. Eric Meyers; Oxford, 1997), Volume 1. The... more Appeared in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (ed. Eric Meyers; Oxford, 1997), Volume 1. The table of phonemes, that had suffered greatly in typesetting, has been corrected in a new appendix attached to this copy.

Fales, M.F., Old Aramaic, HSK 36 (2011), S. 555-573

by Mario Fales

FROM : S. Weninger et al. (Eds.), The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook (=Handbooks of Linguistics and communication Science, 36), Berlin 2011, 555-573

A neglected phonetic law: The assimilation of pretonic yod to a following coronal in North-West Semitic

by Guillaume Jacques

Co-authored with Romain Garnier, Bulletin of SOAS, 75, 1 (2012), 135–145.

This paper shows the existence of a pretonic assimilation of *y to a following
coronal consonant (including *y... more This paper shows the existence of a pretonic assimilation of *y to a following
coronal consonant (including *y from proto-Semitic *y and *w) in
North-West Semitic languages. This rule, which has been obscured by
analogy in each of the North-West Semitic languages, explains three independent
sets of facts: the formation of irregular maqtal-s in Hebrew,
Phoenician and Aramaic; the irregular conjugations of several verbs in
Hebrew; and the plural formation of the irregular noun “house” in
Hebrew and Aramaic. This proposal also solves the long-standing problem
of the etymology of the verb “to give” in North-West Semitic languages
(NTN in Hebrew vs. YTN in Phoenician).

Une curieuse affaireà Elephantine en 410 av. n.è.: Widranga, le sanctuaire de Khnûm et le temple de Yahweh

by Pierre Briant

in: B. Menu (ed.), Égypte pharaonique: pouvoir, société (Méditerranées n°6/7), L'Harmattan, Paris, 1996

1- Sources et problèmes
2- L' "égyptophilie" de Widranga
3- La justice du gouverneur
4- La... 1- Sources et problèmes
2- L' "égyptophilie" de Widranga
3- La justice du gouverneur
4- La fin de l'histoire

Un bordereau des douanes d'Égypte (TADAE C3.7)"

by Pierre Briant

P. Briant & R. Descat, dans N.Grimal et B. Menu (éds.), Le commerce dans l'Égypte ancienne (Actes du colloque de l'AIDEA,Le Caire, 29 septembre-4 octobre 1996), IFAO (Bibliothèque d'Études 121), Le Caire (1998): 59-104

Histoire et archéologie d'un texte: la Lettre de Darius à Gadatas entre Perses, Grecs et Romains 2003

by Pierre Briant

in: M. Giorgeri-M.Salvini-M.C.Trémouille-P.Vannicelli (edd.), Licia et Lidia prima dell'ellenizzazione, Roma, 2003, p. 107-144.

The Narratorial Voice of the Scribes of Tattenai: Ezra 4:6-6:18 Reconsidered

by Joshua Berman

publihsed in VT 56:3 (2006) 313-26

41. Neo-Mandaic

by Chuck Haberl

Published in Weninger, Stefan et al. 2011. The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, pp. 724-37. This version has been updated to reflect recent reviews of my grammar.

Neo-Mandaic is the modern reflex of Classical Mandaic, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community of... more Neo-Mandaic is the modern reflex of Classical Mandaic, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran. Severely endangered, it survives today as the first language of a small number of Mandaeans (possibly as few as 300-500 speakers) in Iran and in the Mandaean diaspora. All Neo-Mandaic speakers are bi- or even tri-lingual in the languages of their neighbors, Arabic and Persian, and the influence of these languages upon the grammar of Neo-Mandaic is considerable, particularly in the lexicon and the morphology of the noun. Nevertheless, Neo-Mandaic is more conservative even in these regards than most other Neo-Aramaic dialects. As the only known surviving modern reflex of any literary dialect of Aramaic, it has one of the longest continuous histories of attestation of any Aramaic dialect and is therefore potentially of great interest to scholars of Aramaic.

Review of Ted Kaizer, The Religious Life of Palmyra (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2002). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.07.09

by Tawny Holm

1998 The Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls

by Edward Cook

A grammatical sketch of the Aramaic texts from Qumran. A grammatical sketch of the Aramaic texts from Qumran.

La Bibliothèque d’Eléphantine (Egypte)

by PD Dr. Ursula Schattner-Rieser

in: Bibliothèques Hebraïca – Judaïca, Tsafon 56 (2008-2009),  13-27.

The Divisions of the Aramaic Language, the Approximate Period of the Dialects’ Use as well as the Literature Representing the Various Dialects

by Jan Niemand

Draft only

“The Aramaic texts and Hebrew and Aramaic languages at Qumran: the North American contributions,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Its Research (ed. Devorah Dimant; STDJ 99; Leiden: Brill, 2012), 155-195.

by Aaron Koller

co-authored with Moshe Bernstein

State of the fields: Hebrew language, Aramaic language, and the Aramaic texts at Qumran. State of the fields: Hebrew language, Aramaic language, and the Aramaic texts at Qumran.

Naissance de Noé.a-c : 4Q534-4Q535-4Q536

by PD Dr. Ursula Schattner-Rieser

in: K. Berthelot/Th. Legrand/A. Paul (ed.), La Bibliothèque de Qumrân. 1. Torah. Genèse. Edition bilingue des manuscrits, Editions du Cerf, Paris 2008,  257-270.