Studia aramaica
Subtitle: new sources and new approaches : papers delivered at the London conference of the Institute of Jewish Studies University College London 26th-28th June 1991
By: ed. by M.J. Geller, J.C. Greenfield and M.P. Weitzman ; with the assistance of V.T. Mathias.
Contributors: Geller, Markham J.; Greenfield, Jonas C., 1926-; Weitzman, Michael.; Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England). Conference : (1991 :
Series: Journal of Semitic studies.; 4
Publisher: Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester; Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Aramaic language -- Congresses.; Inscriptions, Aramaic -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers predominantly in English; some in French or German.
Table of contents: title: Aramaic and the Jews / Jonas C. Greenfield; title: A Re-examination of the Berlin Aramaic dockets / Eleonora Cussini; title: Greek and Aramaic in Palmyrene inscriptions / Han J. W. Drijvers; title: Lamedh-Yodh verbs in Palestinian Targumic Aramaic / S. Fassberg; title: Pagan incantations in Aramaic magic bowls / Tapani Harviainen; title: Combat and conflict in incantation bowls: studies on two Aramaic specimens from Nippur / Erica C.D. Hunter; title: Les Inscriptions araméennes de Cheikh-Fadl (Égypt) / André Lemaire; title: New light on the ancient town of Taimā /̓ Alasdair Livingstone; title: Cognates can be deceptive: some Aramaic distinctives / Alan Millard; title: Neue Materialien zum Christlich-Palästinisch-Aramäischen Lexikon I / Christa Müller-Kessler; title: Aramaic and Syriac dispute-poems and their connections / Robert Murray, SJ; title: The Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic; title: progress and prospects / Michael Sokoloff; title: Papyrus Amherst 63: a new source for the language, literature, religion and history of the Aramaeans / R.C. Steiner; title: Some observations on word formation in Samaritan Aramaic: the qiṭṭūl pattern / Abraham Tal; title: Lexical clues to the composition of the Old Testament Peshitta / M.P. Weitzman.