A Glossary of Targum Onkelos
A Glossary of Targum Onkelos

Author: Edward Cook

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-08-31

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 904744213X

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Targum Onkelos is the oldest complete Jewish Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch, and it has played a major role in Jewish exegesis throughout the centuries. Although the vocabulary of Onkelos has been included in the major rabbinic dictionaries, there has never been a volume devoted solely to the vocabulary of Onkelos. This glossary, based on the standard critical edition, includes all of the vocabulary of the targum, plus geographical names, with bibliographical references to cognates in other Aramaic dialects. It will be a major help both to students first encountering the language of the Targum, as well as to specialists seeking a thorough treatment of its lexical features.

A Glossary of Targum Onkelos
A Glossary of Targum Onkelos

Author: Edward M. Cook

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 9004149783

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Targum Onkelos is the oldest complete Jewish Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch, and it has played a major role in Jewish exegesis throughout the centuries. Although the vocabulary of Onkelos has been included in the major rabbinic dictionaries, there has never been a volume devoted solely to the vocabulary of Onkelos. This glossary, based on the standard critical edition, includes all of the vocabulary of the targum, plus geographical names, with bibliographical references to cognates in other Aramaic dialects. It will be a major help both to students first encountering the language of the Targum, as well as to specialists seeking a thorough treatment of its lexical features.

The Targums
The Targums

Author: Paul V.M. Flesher

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 900421769X

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This remarkable survey introduces critical knowledge and insights that have emerged over the past forty years, including targum manuscripts discovered this century and targums known in Aramaic but only recently translated into English. Prolific scholars Flesher and Chilton guide readers in understanding the development of the targums; their relationship to the Hebrew Bible; their dates, language, and place in the history of Christianity and Judaism; and their theologies and methods of interpretation.

Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic
Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic

Author: Hezy Mutzafi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-02-20

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9004257055

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Neo-Mandaic is the last phase of a pre-modern vernacular closely related to Classical Mandaic, a Mesopotamian Aramaic idiom of Late Antiquity. This unique language is critically endangered, being spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, the only gnostic religion to have survived until the present day. All other Mandaeans, numbering several tens of thousands, are Arabic or Persian speakers. The present study concerns the least known aspect of the language, namely its lexicon as reflected in both its dialects, those of the cities of Ahvaz and Khorramshahr in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. Apart from lexicological and etymological studies in Neo-Mandaic itself, the book discusses the contribution of the Neo-Mandaic lexis to our knowledge of literary Mandaic as well as aspects of this lexis within the framework of Neo-Aramaic as a whole.

The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research
The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research

Author: Devorah Dimant

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-01-20

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 9004208062

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This book contains an exhaustive survey of past and present Qumran research, outlining its particular development in various circumstances and national contexts. For the first time, perspectives and information not recorded in any other publication are highlighted.

A Cultural History of Aramaic
A Cultural History of Aramaic

Author: Holger Gzella

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9004285105

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Aramaic is a constant thread running through the various civilizations of the Near East, ancient and modern, from 1000 BCE to the present, and has been the language of small principalities, world empires, and a fair share of the Jewish-Christian tradition. Holger Gzella describes its cultural and linguistic history as a continuous evolution from its beginnings to the advent of Islam. For the first time the individual phases of the language, their socio-historical underpinnings, and the textual sources are discussed comprehensively in light of the latest linguistic and historical research and with ample attention to scribal traditions, multilingualism, and language as a marker of cultural self-awareness. Many new observations on Aramaic are thereby integrated into a coherent historical framework.