Aramaic in Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity : Papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University.

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.

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