TY - BOOK AU - Humanities,National Endowment for the AU - Meyers,Eric M. AU - Flesher,Paul Virgil McCracken TI - Aramaic in Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University SN - 9781575066189 AV - PJ5201 -- .N38 2004eb U1 - 492.2 PY - 2010/// CY - Winona Lake PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Aramaic language -- Congresses KW - Syriac language -- Congresses KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Awakening Sleeping Texts -- Reconsidering the Letter of Mara bar Serapion -- "Transgressive": Meaning and Implications of ?WO (ºwlª) in Jewish Syriac Text and Translation -- The Composition of the Qenneshre Fragment -- A Note on an Aramaic Date Formula Found at Nabratein and Zoar -- When? "After the Destruction of the Temple" -- The Details of Language -- The Function of the Active Participle in the Aramaic of Daniel -- Tracing the History of a Legal Term of Art: The Word azarah in Biblical, Tannaitic, and Targumic Literature -- The Adverb [omitted] ("Perhaps") in the Piety and Prophecy of the Hebrew Bible and Early Versions -- Translating the Hebrew Particle [omitted] into Aramaic and English: -- Recasting: Making an Old Text New -- The Use of the First Person in the Genesis Apocryphon -- Syntactic Double Translation in the Targumim -- The Fish Grows Bigger: Angelic Insertions in Targums Neofiti and Pseudo-Jonathan -- Hapax legomena and the Development of Proto-Onqelos: The Case of Genesis -- The Wisdom of the Sages: Rabbinic Rewriting of Qohelet -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Other Ancient Sources UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3155587 ER -