Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity
Subtitle: papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University
By: edited by Eric M. Meyers and Paul V.M. Flesher.
Contributors: Meyers, Eric M.; Flesher, Paul Virgil McCracken.
Series: Duke judaic studies series -- v. 3
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: eng; arc; heb
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781575061788
Subjects: Aramaic language -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Awakening sleeping texts; title: Reconsidering the letter of Mara Bar Serapion / David Rensberger; title: "Transgressive" : meaning and implications of WO in Jewish Syriac text and translation / Sigrid Peterson; title: The composition of the Qenneshre fragment / Michael Penn; title: A note on an Aramaic date formula found at Nabratein and Zoar / Eric M. Meyers; title: When "after the destruction of the temple" / Paul V.M. Flesher; title: The details of language; title: The function of the active participle in the Aramaic of Daniel / Tarsee Li; title: Tracing the history of a legal term of art : the word Azarah in biblical, Tannaitic, and Targumic literature / Madeline Kochen; title: The adverb YLWA ("perhaps") in the piety and prophecy of the Hebrew Bible and early versions / William Reader; title: Translating the Hebrew particle UA YK into Aramaic and English : an exploration through the Targums and the Peshitta / Blane W. Conklin; title: Recasting : making an old text new; title: The use of the first person in the Genesis apocryphon / Stephen A. Reed; title: Syntactic double translation in the Targumim / Michael Carasik; title: The fish grows bigger : angelic insertions in Neofiti and pseudo-Jonathan / David L. Everson; title: Hapax Legomena and the development of proto-Onqelos : the case of Genesis / Kyong-Jin Lee; title: The wisdom of the sages : Rabbinic rewriting of Qhelet / Paul V.M. Flesher.