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A semantic comparison of the conclusion of LXX Tobit and Semitic 4QTobit
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 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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Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts by Ida Fröhlich
Aestimatio: 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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Theorizing in the Absence of a Theory:The Case of the Aramaic Targums to the Pentateuch
TranscUlturAl, 2009 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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THE SEMITIC SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN PATRISTICS
Освітній дискурс, 2021 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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Tyndale Bulletin, 2003 This review article focuses on recent treatments of Q, the sayings source widely believed to stand behind the common material in Matthew and Luke (the double tradition).
Peter M. Head, P. J. Williams
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The Biblical Annals, 2021 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 Syncategorematic Nature of Neo-Aramaic and English Antonyms
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 Antonyms have always been considered the starting point for language learners; therefore, they are familiar cross-linguistically. In this research, we try to provide a semantic description of antonymy in Neo-Aramaic (a member of the Semitic family) as it
Ala Al-Kajela
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A trilingual sales contract on papyrus from Roman Arabia (P.Yadin I 22)
Manuscript and Text Cultures, 2023 This contribution considers the context, textual content, and means of textual division in a trilingual sales contract from Roman Arabia. The text, P.Yadin I 22, formed part of the so-called Babatha archive, the family papers of a Jewish woman who later
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Translation or Divination? Sacred Languages and Bilingualism in Judaism and Lucumí Traditions
Religions, 2022 I compare the status of a sacred language in two very different religious traditions. In Judaism, the Hebrew language is the language of liturgy, prayer, and the Written Law.
Michael Nosonovsky
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