A cultural history of Aramaic : from the beginnings to the advent of Islam /
Aramaic is a constant thread running through the various civilizations of the Near East, ancient and modern, from 1000 BCE to the present, and has been the language of small principalities, world empires, and a fair share of the Jewish-Christian tradition. Holger Gzella describes its cultural and li...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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Colección: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ;
111. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Aramaic among the Semitic languages
- The emergence of Aramaic dialects in the Fertile Crescent
- The spread of Aramaic in the Assyrian and Babylonian empires
- Official Aramaic and the Achaemenid chancellery
- Aramaic in the Hellenistic and early Roman near East
- Western Aramaic in late antique Palestine
- Eastern Aramaic in late antique Syria and Mesopotamia
- Epilogue.