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Aramaic as Lingua Franca [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter discusses various linguistic aspects of the rise and use of Aramaic as the lingua franca of three successive Near Eastern empires – the Neo-Assyrian, the Neo-Babylonian, and the Achaemenid (also "Persian") empires. In striving to extend their territories, the administrations of the empires incorporated regions with other spoken and written
Folmer, M.L.   +2 more
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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Introduction

open access: yesActa Academica, 2001
From text: The activity in which you are engaged at this moment is reading and understanding an English sentence which you have never seen before and may well never see again. You may ask, how is it possible to understand a sentence which has never been
doaj   +3 more sources

In search of traces of the mandrake myth: the historical, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2021
Dafni A   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Frequent hospital presenters' use of health information during COVID-19: results of a cross-sectional survey. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Health Serv Res, 2023
Jessup RL   +15 more
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Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both?

open access: yes
The study investigates the historical roles of Aramaic as both a lingua franca and a koine, examining its development and usage across various periods. It identifies three main contexts: as the administrative and diplomatic language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, as the religious and scholarly language of Jewish communities in Late Antiquity and the
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Verb movement in Biblical Aramaic: Bibliography

open access: yesActa Academica, 2001
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Adriaan Lamprecht
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