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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Aramaic"”.
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Correlations Between Old Aramaic Inscriptions and the Aramaic Section of Daniel
<p>Problem. In scholarly debates on the origin of DA, the corpus of OA texts has not received full attention. Thus, there is a lack of comparative studies between DA and OA. This type of study serves a twofold purpose: It contributes to providing an answer to the questions of origin of DA, and it …
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Aramaic and Mandean Magic and Their Demonology
The Aramaic texts to be discussed in this thesis are magical incantations against evil powers. The texts are written on earthenware bowls found in archaeological investigations or by chance in Iraq and Iran. The bowls and texts appear to date from Sassanian Babylonia(1
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Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
… research investigates connections between the Aramaic incantation bowls, contemporary ceramic art practice, and critical theory. Scholarly attention surrounding the Aramaic Bowls remains largely confined within the philological disciplines of translation, linguistics and grammar. In contrast, …
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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: A Comparative Grammar
… a linguistic analysis of key issues in the Neo-Aramaic dialect that was historically spoken by the Jewish community in Dohok, north-western Iraq. This linguistic variety belongs to the North-Eastern sub-branch of Neo-Aramaic – a group of dialects and languages used by Jews and Christians in …
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A Diachronic and Areal Perspective on Subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
… on subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA), tracing its development from Late Antiquity to the present. The first two chapters outline the aim and scope of the thesis and also provide an introduction to the development of Syriac and NENA verbal forms; the use of punctuation …
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Aspects of the Oral Heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-Speaking Jewish Community of Zakho
… three genres of the oral heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho, Kurdistan: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative, and the folktale. During the past three decades, there has been a renewed interest in research on Neo-Aramaic, and a substantial growth of research …
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A Critical Comparative Scriptural Analysis of Genesis 1:1-5 based on Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic Manuscripts
… to the translators of Gen. 1:1-5 from Hebrew to Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic, their translations suggest what they were doing as scribes, their ideologies, and their methodology for their word choices. Fascinatingly, Gen. 1:1-5 meant different things for interpreters of the same biblical …
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Jerome's sources in his translation of the Hebrew Bible
… sources. Indeed, as Jerome translated the Hebrew-Aramaic version of Scripture, he also resorted to different Greek and Latin forms of the text and to Jewish traditions that informants taught him to understand the Hebrew-Aramaic text. I demonstrate this through a series of case studies, in which I …
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A Study of the Language Shifts in the Book of Daniel : A Comparative Narrative Analysis of Daniel 1 and 2, 7 and 8
… in Daniel 1 and 2 (Daniel 2:4b; Hebrew to Aramaic) and Daniel 7 and 8 (Daniel 8:1; Aramaic to Hebrew). Chapter Two includes a brief overview of the narrative elements in the book of Daniel and of the prior use of narrative analysis in Old Testament studies and in the study of the book of …
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Language in Roman Caesarea Maritima
… Jewish, Roman, Samaritan – and many languages – Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin. Using the methodology of modern sociolinguistics, I examine how all these different identities and languages interacted. I take a comprehensive approach to our sources for Caesarea, analysing texts in all four of …
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Language Contact and Inner-Syriac Developments: Lexical Study of the Peshitta Genesis
… of the Peshitta by identifying language contact (Aramaic-Greek-Syriac) and corpus contact (LXX-P, T-P) on the one hand, and inner-Syriac developments on the other. Using case studies from Peshitta Genesis, the thesis responds to proposals of Septuagint or Targumic influence upon the Peshitta, and …
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Copy-raising in Koine Greek
… various stages of Greek, as well as in Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, Blackfoot and other languages. This thesis also gives evidence for the claim that COPY-RAISING best explains the proleptic constructions found in Koine Greek. Examples from the New Testament are discussed and are distinguished from …
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A Grammar of Transcriptions in 2 Esdras: Text, Philology, Phonology
… spellings reliably reveal a Hebrew and Aramaic pronunciation of Ezra-Nehemiah from a stage earlier than that attested in the Tiberian reading tradition. This pronunciation, and the process of uncovering it, sheds new light on Ezra-Nehemiah, 2 Esdras, and some of the people who …
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Horn-Motifs in the Hebrew Bible and Related Ancient Near Eastern Literature and Iconography
… languages as Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Sout-Arabic, and Hebrew. A complexity of meanings emerged as early as the ancient Sumerian compounds of signs. Many different meanings were reflected, in the respective language investigated, though new shades of meanings developed in the …
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The "Throne of God" Motif in the Hebrew Bible
… kissēh, môŝāb̲ and t<sup>e</sup>ḵûnāh), one Aramaic word (korsē'), and other related expressions are surveyed here.</p> <p>Chapter V undertakes an exegetical analysis of the "throne of God" passages of the Hebrew Bible. The throne of God symbolizes His eternal kingship/kingdom, judgeship, and …
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Mada'in Salih, a Nabataean town in north west Arabia: analysis and interpretation of the excavation 1986-1990
… bearing inscriptions. Those inscriptions are in Aramaic and usually contain information about the owner name, legal rights, and occasionally the mason's name. Little was known about the site's history and other aspects such as the economy, culture, society and religions prior to the excavation. …
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A Codicological and Linguistic Typology of Common Torah Codices from the Cairo Genizah
… language contact with dialectal Arabic, Aramaic influence from Targums, and an imperfect application of Standard Tiberian vocalisation rules. Third, these codicological and NST patterns tend to complement each other, so that NST and codicology generally correlate, region-by-region, …
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What is a “Helpmate”? Using Comparative Semitic Linguistics to Propose New Translations for Ezer Kenegdo
… potential cognates from Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, and Ugaritic. These lists of cognates are first analyzed according to linguistic suitability. They are then analyzed in context of the Genesis 1-3 account, with particular attention to whether semantic ranges fit the narrative through an …
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