Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity : papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University / edited by Eric M. Meyers and Paul V.M. Flesher.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Seminar
Other Authors:	Flesher, Paul Virgil McCracken, Meyers, Eric M.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2010.
Series:	Duke Judaic studies series ; v. 3.
Subjects:	Aramaic language > Congresses. Syriac language > Congresses. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Arabic. Aramaic language Syriac language Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Awakening sleeping texts
Reconsidering the letter of Mara Bar Serapion / David Rensberger
"Transgressive" : meaning and implications of WO in Jewish Syriac text and translation / Sigrid Peterson
The composition of the Qenneshre 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 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 Qhelet / Paul V.M. Flesher.

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