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Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period (Hardcover, New)
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Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period (Hardcover, New)
Series: Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions
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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 history and culture and on epigraphy and language. The
linguistic commentaries will help readers who have a knowledge of
Hebrew or Arabic or one of the Aramaic dialects to understand the
difficulties involved in interpreting such materials. The
translations and more general comments will be of great interest to
classicists and ancient historians.
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