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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.
This collection of essays contains a wide range of topics
reflecting the depth and breadth of interest of the scholar in
whose honour they were commissioned - Kevin J. Cathcart. The
central focus is Near Eastern, and covers a range of philological,
linguistic, exegetical, historical and interpretative issues. The
Near Eastern languages examined include Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic,
Ethiopic, Hebrew, Septuagintal Greek, Syriac and Ugaritic, while
exegetical and text-critical topics include treatments of issues in
Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, Isaiah, Amos, Psalms and the Song of Songs.
Hermeneutical and historical essays touch on Ancient Israel's
history and its interpretation, as well as on the significance of
such individuals as the consular official John Dickson, E.H. Palmer
in the Cambridge Libraries, William Lithgow of Lanark, and the
contribution to Semitic epigraphy of the explorer Julius Euting.
This is volume 375 in the Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament Supplement series.
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