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Online-Ressource (388 p.)
ISBN:
9780199252565
Serie:
Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions
Inhalt:
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 the following dialects:Nabataean, Jewish, Palmyrene, Syriac, and Hatran. Detailed commentaries on the texts are preceded by chapters on hi
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Other Conventions; I. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INTRODUCTION; II. EPIGRAPHIC AND LINGUISTIC INTRODUCTION; III. NABATAEAN ARAMAIC INSCRIPTIONS AND PAPYRI; IV. JEWISH (PALESTINIAN) ARAMAIC INSCRIPTIONS AND PAPYRI; V. PALMYRENE INSCRIPTIONS; VI. EARLY SYRIAC (EDESSAN ARAMAIC) INSCRIPTIONS AND PARCHMENTS; VII. HATRAN INSCRIPTIONS; Figures and Plates; Lexical Indexes; Bibliography;
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ISBN 9780191554841
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ISBN 9780199252565
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period : Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Mehr zum Autor:
Healey, John F. 1948-
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