Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity: papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University: (Series:Duke Judaic studies series; v. 3)

Ancient world 340 National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Seminar (2004: Duke University) Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity: papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University. (Series:Duke Judaic studies series; v. 3). Edited by Eric M. Meyers and Paul V.M. Flesher. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2010, xx, 300p, bib, index. New in dust jacket. $20.00

Contents:Introduction -- Awakening sleeping texts -- Reconsidering the letter of Mara Bar Serapion / David Rensberger -- "Transgressive": meaning and implications of 'wl' in Jewish Syriac text and translation / Sigrid Peterson -- The composition of the Qenneshråe fragment / Michael Penn -- A note on an Aramaic date formula found at Nabratein and Zoar / Eric M. Meyers -- When? "After the destruction of the temple" / Paul V.M. Flesher -- The details of language -- The function of the active participle in the Aramaic of Daniel / Tarsee Li -- Tracing the history of a legal term of art: the word azarah in biblical, Tannaitic, and Targumic literature / Madeline Kochen -- The adverb YLWA ("perhaps") in the piety and prophecy of the Hebrew Bible and early versions / William Reader -- Translating the Hebrew particle UA YK into Aramaic and English: an exploration through the Targums and the Peshitta / Blane W. Conklin -- Recasting: making an old text new -- The use of the first person in the Genesis apocryphon / Stephen A. Reed -- Syntactic double translation in the Targumim / Michael Carasik -- The fish grows bigger: angelic insertions in Targums Neofiti and pseudo-Jonathan / David L. Everson -- Hapax Legomena and the development of proto-Onqelos: the case of Genesis / Kyong-Jin Lee -- The wisdom of the sages: Rabbinic rewriting of Qohelet / Paul V.M. Flesher.