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The occasion of the conference that produced this volume of collected papers attests to a growing interest in the Aramaic literature discovered among the Qumran caves. Because the Aramaic scrolls were, generally speaking, published later than many of the
D. Machiela
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On Sippar’s Quay: Cuneiform Tablets with Aramaic Inscriptions from the Böhl Collection in Leiden
In this article we publish and study three Neo-Babylonian cuneiform texts from the Böhl Collection that contain Aramaic inscriptions. Deriving from the same archival context, these tablets bring to life the complex social fabric of Sippar’s ...
Bastian Still, Rieneke Sonnevelt
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The Pausal Form in Neo-Aramaic Dialects
The research deals with the “Pausal Form” in the Neo-Aramaic dialects (Sureth), specifically in three dialects: Tellsqof, Batnaya, and Beqofa. The reason why these dialects are chosen is, firstly, these dialects indeed have this form, and secondly, the ...
Kawther Najeeb Abdulahad Askar
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From dies to punches: techniques for (counter) marking lycian coins and sigloi [PDF]
The article examines the modalities with which countermarks were strucked on Lycian coins and sigloi in the period between the end of the sixth century B C and 360 B C. Two main kinds of tools were used for applying countermarks: punches and dies.
Novella Vismara
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A semantic comparison of the conclusion of LXX Tobit and Semitic 4QTobit
At the beginning of the 20th century, the shorter Greek version of the book of Tobit, GI, which is included in the Catholic Bible, was thought to be the oldest version. It was defined as ‘a lesson on almsgiving and its redeeming powers’.
Annette H.M. Evans
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Theorizing in the Absence of a Theory:The Case of the Aramaic Targums to the Pentateuch
Targums are a kind of ancient Jewish translation literature that may have played an important role in synagogues, private devotion, and education. The reason scholars adduce such widespread use for the targums is because they translate the Hebrew Bible ...
Simon Lasair
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Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts by Ida Fröhlich
: Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts primarily explores the astronomical, demonological, divinatory, and medical imaginations of the Aramaic texts found at Khirbet Qumran (e.g., 4Q242, 4Q208–209, and 4Q560), in the Hebrew Bible (Daniel 5), and in Ge’ez ...
Joe Morgan Currie
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THE SEMITIC SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN PATRISTICS
The Jewish community of Antioch was not monolithic. Communities of different currents tended to gather separately. Apparently, some of them, having received the news of the coming of the Messiah from the apostles, became the first centers of Christianity
Daria Morozova
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Book Review: Mette Bundvad and Kasper Siegismund (eds.), with the collaboration of Melissa Sayyad Bach, Søren Holst, Jespers Høgenhaven, Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, 14-15 August ...
Henryk Józef Drawnel
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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