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Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period

John F. Healey
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      In the first centuries AD, although much of the Near East was ruled by Rome, the main local language was Aramaic, and the people who lived inside or on the fringes of the area controlled by the Romans frequently wrote their inscriptions and legal documents in their own local dialects of this language. This book introduces these fascinating early texts to a wider audience, by presenting a representative sample, comprising eighty inscriptions and documents in thefollowing dialects: Nabataean, Jewish, Palmyrene, Syriac, and Hatran. Detailed commentaries on the texts are preceded by chapters on history and culture and on epigraphy and language. The linguistic commentaries will help readers who have a knowledge of Hebrew or Arabic or one of the Aramaic dialects tounderstand the difficulties involved in interpreting such materials. The translations and more general comments will be of great interest to classicists and ancient historians.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: John F. Healey EAN: 9780199252565 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 779 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-10-29 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

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      Aramaic, Writing systems, alphabets, Ancient history, Middle Eastern history

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      John F. Healey is Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Manchester.
      In the first centuries AD, although much of the Near East was ruled by Rome, the main local language was Aramaic, and the people who lived inside or on the fringes of the area controlled by the Romans frequently wrote their inscriptions and legal documents in their own local dialects of this language. This book introduces these fascinating early texts to a wider audience, by presenting a representative sample, comprising eighty inscriptions and documents in thefollowing dialects: Nabataean, Jewish, Palmyrene, Syriac, and Hatran. Detailed commentaries on the texts are preceded by chapters on history and culture and on epigraphy and language. The linguistic commentaries will help readers who have a knowledge of Hebrew or Arabic or one of the Aramaic dialects tounderstand the difficulties involved in interpreting such materials. The translations and more general comments will be of great interest to classicists and ancient historians.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: John F. Healey EAN: 9780199252565 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 779 g HEIGHT: 241 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-10-29 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

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      Aramaic, Writing systems, alphabets, Ancient history, Middle Eastern history

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      John F. Healey is Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Manchester.

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