A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic

A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic
Author: T. Muraoka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Aramaic language
ISBN: 9789042925595

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Qumran Aramaic. Not only Aramaic texts from Qumran caves, but also contemporary texts originating from other neighbouring locations in the Judaean Desert such as Nahal Hever, Murabba'at, Jericho, and Massada are covered. It would be an important tool of study for specialists in Aramaic linguistics, the Jewish culture of the Second Temple period, and the New Testament. The scope and nature of the grammar is comparable to that of Muraoka - Porten, A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic (2nd revised ed., 2003).

Dictionary of Qumran Aramaic

Dictionary of Qumran Aramaic
Author: Edward M. Cook
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1575067196

The Aramaic texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important discoveries for the history of Aramaic and for the background of early Judaism and Christianity. They constitute a “missing link” between Biblical Aramaic and the later Aramaic of the targums and midrashic literature. Among them are the oldest texts we have of the Book of Enoch and Tobit, as well as the earliest Aramaic translation of a portion of Scripture, the Targum of Job. Other previously unknown texts such as the Genesis Apocryphon and the Aramaic Levi Document have opened up many new avenues of research on the literature of early Judaism, and the dialect itself is chronologically the one nearest to the origins of Christianity. Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive dictionary of all the Aramaic texts from the 11 Qumran caves, from a noted specialist in Qumran Aramaic. It is the first dictionary in any language devoted solely to this important Aramaic corpus and contains a wealth of detail, including definitions, extensive citations of the sources, discussions of difficult passages, revised readings, and a bibliography. It will be an indispensable resource to anyone interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the literature of early Judaism and Christianity, and the Aramaic language.

Aramaica Qumranica

Aramaica Qumranica
Author: Katell Berthelot
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2010-11-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004194320

The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls represent roughly 13% of the Qumran library and correspond to a wide range of genres and topics. This book consists of the proceedings of a conference on the Aramaic scrolls from Qumran which took place in Aix-en-Provence in 2008. It includes both the papers themselves and a transcription of the discussions. The 22 papers tackle linguistic, exegetical and historical questions, focusing in particular on: the relation of the Aramaic texts to what we know as the Hebrew Bible; their literary genres; the question of their sectarian or non-sectarian provenance; the character of the corpus, and specifically its relevance to the development of apocalypticism and messianism in the Jewish tradition.

Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Orthography

Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Orthography
Author: David Noel Freedman
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1992
Genre: Aramaic language
ISBN: 9780931464638

This book introduces the student to the textual study of the Hebrew Bible--to help such a student "perceive the work of the numberless and nameless scribes torn between tradition and fashion in their restrained attempts to update the orthography of Scripture." Sixteen essays serve as the bridge from older methods for the study of orthography to newer ones, using the computer to analyze large bodies of text.

The Aramaic Astronomical Book from Qumran

The Aramaic Astronomical Book from Qumran
Author: Henryk Drawnel
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2011-06-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199590435

A critical edition of the four Aramaic manuscripts from Qumran (4Q208-4Q211) that comprise the Aramaic Astronomical Book, part of the Jewish pseudepigraphic literature of the Second Temple period. It describes the movement of the moon in its phases, schematic meteorology, and the movement of the stars in relation to the seasons of the year.

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran
Author: Mette Bundvad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Dead Sea scrolls
ISBN: 9789004413702

This volume is a collection of scholarly articles on the Aramaic Dead Sea scrolls, some of the oldest and most fascinating literary compositions among the ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the Qumran caves.

New Perspectives on Aramaic Epigraphy in Mesopotamia, Qumran, Egypt and Idumea

New Perspectives on Aramaic Epigraphy in Mesopotamia, Qumran, Egypt and Idumea
Author: Aren M. Maeir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9783161598944

This volume contains the proceedings of two international meetings held by the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB) in Ramat-Gan/Jerusalem (March 2017) and Leipzig (May 2018). Most of the papers relate to various aspects of the Aramaic epigraphy in different contexts with a second part of the volume dealing with Idumean ostraca. The papers will be of interest to ancient historians, archaeologists of the ancient Near East, scholars of Semitic and Biblical studies and the ancient Near East.

An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts, 3rd Edition

An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts, 3rd Edition
Author: Matthew Black
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725272024

Since the second edition of this book appeared in 1954, two major discoveries in the field of Aramaic studies—the Qumran texts and the Neofiti Targum—have been made available to scholars. These, along with some important publications on the subject, have made this third edition necessary. The book has been completely revised and reset and the supplementary notes of the second edition incorporated in the text; a new chapter has been added to take account of the implications of the new discoveries for previous views about the language of Jesus. Those parts of the book dealing with Acts have been revised and supplemented in the light of Dr. Max Wilcox’s important book on the Semitisms of Acts; and an Appendix by Dr. Geza Vermes, Reader in Jewish Studies in Oxford, has been added containing fresh evidence for the use of the expression “son of man” in Palestinian Aramaic.

Qumran and Jerusalem

Qumran and Jerusalem
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2010-03-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802849768

With the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls come major changes in our understanding of these fascinating texts and their significance for the study of the history of Judaism and Christianity. One of the most significant changes that one cannot study Qumran without Jerusalem nor Jerusalem without Qumran is explored in this important volume. / Although the Scrolls preserve the peculiar ideology of the Qumran sect, much of the material also represents the common beliefs and practices of the Judaism of the time. Here Lawrence Schiffman mines these incredible documents to reveal their significance for the reconstruction of the history of Judaism. His investigation brings to life a period of immense significance for the history of the Western world.