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; Duke Judaic studies series -- v. 3.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: mul
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781575061788
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Awakening sleeping texts. Reconsidering the letter of Mara Bar Serapion / David Rensberger ; Transgressive: meaning and implications of 'wl' in Jewish Syriac text and translation / Sigrid Peterson ; The composition of the Qenneshråe fragment / Michael Penn ; A note on an Aramaic date formula found at Nabratein and Zoar / Eric M. Meyers ; When? After the destruction of the temple / Paul V.M. Flesher; title: The details of language. The function of the active participle in the Aramaic of Daniel / Tarsee Li ; Tracing the history of a legal term of art: the word azarah in biblical, Tannaitic, and Targumic literature / Madeline Kochen ; The adverb YLWA ("perhaps") in the piety and prophecy of the Hebrew Bible and early versions / William Reader ; 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. The use of the first person in the Genesis apocryphon / Stephen A. Reed ; Syntactic double translation in the Targumim / Michael Carasik ; The fish grows bigger: angelic insertions in Targums Neofiti and pseudo-Jonathan / David L. Everson ; Hapax Legomena and the development of proto-Onqelos: the case of Genesis / Kyong-Jin Lee ; The wisdom of the sages: Rabbinic rewriting of Qohelet / Paul V.M. Flesher.