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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781999603321

Titolo

Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity [[electronic resource] ] : papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University / / edited by Eric M. Meyers and Paul V.M. Flesher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winona Lake, Ind., : Eisenbrauns, 2010

ISBN

1-57506-618-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Duke Judaic studies series ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

FlesherPaul Virgil McCracken

MeyersEric M

Disciplina

492.2

Soggetti

Aramaic language

Syriac language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- 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 -- 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.