Hebrew and Aramaic in the First Century

Safrai, S.; Stern, Mark J.; Flusser, David; Unnik, W. C. van

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“…Other proposals deal only with Daniel or Daniel and Ezra. See e.g., Rabin 1976: 1013–14; Snell 1980; Buth 1992: 300–01; Sérandour 2000; Portier-Young 2010). What I would like to highlight, however, is the recognition among at least some scholars (e.g., Machiela and Reed) that the decision to write in Aramaic reflects the cosmopolitan character of the corpus.…”

Section: Common Literary Features and Shared Themesmentioning

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A History of Research on the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls

Jones

2023

Currents in Biblical Research

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The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls have attracted increasing scholarly attention since their official publication was completed in 2009. These manuscripts, representing about thirty distinct compositions, attest to the existence of a previously unknown Jewish Aramaic scribal culture that flourished in the early Hellenistic period (ca. late fourth to mid-second centuries BCE). The Aramaic Scrolls thus have the potential to illuminate an otherwise poorly understood period of Jewish history. In this article, I discuss the various scholarly approaches to their language, literary content, and social location, with a special emphasis on trends in the secondary literature since the late 2000s. This article will also provide interested students and scholars with an overview of the major themes and concerns found throughout the Aramaic Scrolls.

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Section: Common Literary Features and Shared Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A History of Research on the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls

Jones

2023

Currents in Biblical Research

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2. The Gospel Of The Acts Of John: Its Relation To The Fourth Gospel

Czachesz¹

2010

The Legacy of John

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The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew

Hornkohl

2023

Semitic Languages and Cultures

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This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition’s written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text. Where the extant vocalisation differs from the apparently pre-exilic pronunciation presupposed by the written tradition, the former often exhibits conspicuous affinity with post-exilic linguistic conventions as seen in representative Second Temple material, such as the core Late Biblical Hebrew books, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, rabbinic literature, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and contemporary Aramaic and Syriac material. On the one hand, such instances of written-reading disharmony clearly entail a degree of anachronism in the vocalisation of Classical Biblical Hebrew compositions. On the other, since many of the innovative and secondary features in the Tiberian vocalisation tradition are typical of sources from the Second Temple Period and, in some cases, are documented as minority alternatives in even earlier material, the Masoretic reading tradition is justifiably characterised as a linguistic artefact of profound historical depth.

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Hebrew and Aramaic in the First Century

Cited by 26 publications

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A History of Research on the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls

A History of Research on the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls

2. The Gospel Of The Acts Of John: Its Relation To The Fourth Gospel

The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew

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