LEADER 05598nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910961423003321 005 20251117091350.0 010 $a1-57506-618-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000052396 035 $a(OCoLC)759160107 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495942 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534085 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331195 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534085 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493154 035 $a(PQKB)11450841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155587 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495942 035 $a(BIP)28960675 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000052396 100 $a20091228d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity $epapers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University /$fedited by Eric M. Meyers and Paul V.M. Flesher 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWinona Lake, Ind. $cEisenbrauns$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (322 p.) 225 1 $aDuke Judaic studies series ;$vv. 3 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-57506-178-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aAwakening 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 Qenneshra?e 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. 330 $aFrom the 700s B.C.E. to the late 300s B.C.E., Aramaic was the international language of the ancient Near East. With the arrival of Alexander the Great in the 300s, Greek supplanted Aramaic, but Aramaic did not disappear. Although it gradually broke apart into dialects, in many regions of the former Persian Empire, Aramaic became the lingua franca of peoples in the regions of Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia. As a result, a wealth of important works were written in Aramaic and have survived, from apocryphal and rabbinic texts to numerous translations of Scripture (targumim) and liturgical texts, as well as legal documents, letters, and inscriptions. In the decades following the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 C.E. and the failure of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135, large numbers of Jews migrated from Palestine to Babylonia. One of the three dialects of Aramaic used in Babylonia eventually formed the linguistic basis for the Babylonian Talmud, along with Hebrew. In Syria and northern Mesopotamia, Aramaic also developed into an important local language called Syriac. As Christianity began to grow, especially after its legalization under Constantine in the fourth century, Syriac took on a new role. While most Christians in the Mediterranean world adopted Latin and/or Greek for religious purposes, those in Syria used Syriac, and it played a major role in the formation of Christianity in the lands nearest its origins during its first millennium. The churches translated Scripture into Syriac, as well as using the language for commentaries, sermons, and liturgical works. The essays in this fine volume came into being during a six-week residential seminar in the summer of 2004 held at Duke University and directed by the editors. The seminar focused on Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity and was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The important essays included here were written as a result of that seminar. Most were written in residence, and all were done in discussion with the seminar's participants and stellar faculty, which in addition to Eric Meyers and Paul Flesher included Lucas Van Rompay, Michael Sokoloff, Douglas Gropp, Tina Shepardson, and Hayim Lapin. The essays are arranged in engaging three sections: Awakening Sleeping Texts, the Details of Language, and Recasting: Making Old Texts New. 410 0$aDuke Judaic studies series ;$vv. 3. 606 $aAramaic language$vCongresses 606 $aSyriac language$vCongresses 615 0$aAramaic language 615 0$aSyriac language 676 $a492.2 701 $aFlesher$b Paul Virgil McCracken$01803767 701 $aMeyers$b Eric M$0647292 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961423003321 996 $aAramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity$94480908 997 $aUNINA