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.
| Author/creator | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Other author | Meyers, Eric M. |
| Other author | Flesher, Paul Virgil McCracken. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, |
| Description | p. cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Duke judaic studies series ; v. 3 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009053664 |
| ISBN | 9781575061788 (hardback : alk. paper) |