Hey Bob! Thank you very much for your email. I do appreciate the fact that Syriac is a term for a very diverse group of dialects with a wide variety of...
I've seen it written so many times that pronouncing zqapha as a back 'a' is 'East Syrian'. It is probably the most distinctive feature of eastern dialects....
I prefer using the East Syriac pronounciation, since it's very akin to Classical Hebrew's pronounciation (and now that i think of it the Western pronounciation...
Hey Coenraad! ... Classical Hebrew's pronounciation (and now that i think of it the Western pronounciation of vowels may be closer to modern Askenazi Hebrew) ...
Hi, Anyone have ever seen the Zohar hebrew translation of "Zohar beLashon haKodesh" of Yarid haSefarim? http://www.kodeshbooks.co.il/bookdetail.asp?book_id=454...
Apologies for cross posting! It's that time of year again when the Society of Biblical Literature's Annual Meeting is just round the corner (Nov. 19th-Nov....
I apologize for what I suspect will be a peculiar question. I have been told that the following is a prayer in Aramaic: Arem, Shem, Beth, Sedal, Sacravalian,...
... Some of the words unquestionably occur in Aramaic, but "name," "house," and "one" don't appear in the supposed translation. Aramaic equivalents of the...
Peter T. Daniels wrote, Some of the words unquestionably occur in Aramaic, but "name," "house," and "one" don't appear in the supposed translation. Aramaic...
This edition of the Zohar of R. Y. Rosenberg was criticized and you have to be careful (on his work see: I. Robinson, Kabbalist and Communal Leader: Rabbi...
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Hey! I have a question abt an aramaic word: paraqletos. I've read that it's a borrowing from the Greek word parakletos (Comforter)...I've also read on Paul...
Dear Coenraad, The word parakletos is Greek indeed. In the Christian Aramaic (e.g. in Syriac) it was borrowed from the New Testament. The general meaning of...
Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin
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Hey, yourself! Re paraqletos. See http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/ "Search the CAL Database" , "Online Lexicon Search" , bottom left of the page "JPA Dictionary...
... Why would you expect to find a specifically Christian theological term in a dictionary of Jewish Aramaic? What does Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum have? ...
See the response below. ... The idea of redemption (of captives, of the first-born) is a Jewish concept. If an Aramaic word from Palestine in c. 1 CE were...
Here is a summary of Paul Younan's reasoning behind the word paraqletos. He says PRQLTA is derived from 2 Aramaic words: 1)PRQ ('To end/finish/save' via...
... It's like Jastrow coming up with "Semitic" etymologies for the patently Greek and Iranian loanwords in his dictionary of Rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic....
... FWIW, PRQLY+ occurs as a loan word from Greek in the Mishnah (Avot 4:11). It lacks the Greek nominative ending (but functions as an object of the Hebrew...
Apologies for cross posting! This is the second announcement of the 9th annual gathering of all NT and Biblical e-list members (i.e. XTalkers, B-Greeks, and ...
Dear all, Apologies for jumping in on this topic so late - it's only just come to my attention that it has been discussed (albeit briefly!) here. The question...
I would assume that you are all familiar with this portion of the entry in Halot s.v. )$RWN* —3) Akk. ašru place, country, building complex, (pl.) sacred...
Apologies for cross posting Here is (a) the third and Final Call for the 9th annual gathering of all NT and Biblical e-list members (i.e. XTalkers, B-Greeks,...
With apologies for cross posting Here is the revised and final list of e-list members who have indicated that they will be attending SBL and or the E-Lister's...
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Perhaps some of you are interested in this. Trevor Peterson CUA/Semitics ... From: Justin Dombrowski <jedombrowski@...> Date: Dec 20, 2005 10:51 AM ...
I don't see it on the Olms Web site. Trevor Peterson CUA/Semitics ... From: aramaic@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Peter T. Daniels Sent: Tue 12/20/2005 5:49 PM ...
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