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A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam

By Holger Gzella

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004285091, 9789004285095
ISSN
0169-9423
Google Books ID
y9UuBgAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2316161 bytes)
Series
Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The Near and Middle East 111
Pages
xvi+451\469
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-03-16 10:52:03
Языки и языкознание;Арамейский и сирийский языки

Description

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 linguistic history as a continuous evolution from its beginnings to the advent of Islam. For the first time the individual phases of the language, their socio-historical underpinnings, and the textual sources are discussed comprehensively in light of the latest linguistic and historical research and with ample attention to scribal traditions, multilingualism, and language as a marker of cultural self-awareness. Many new observations on Aramaic are thereby integrated into a coherent historical framework.

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