I am wondering what the closest comparator to Biblical Aramaic would be outside the Canon. I understand it is close to Imperial Aramaic linguisticaly. Are...
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... And for anyone interested Casey's book is available on print.google.com -- aifoundations.org...
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It would probably be best to either transliterate the Divine Name "Mar-Yah" or translate it as "Yahweh" instead of using a title such as "LORD" or "Lord"....
Dear Coenrad, As a translator you have a responsibility towards your readers to give them an intelligible text, and you have a scholarly responsibility towards...
... According to Rudolf Meyer's grammar, there are Greek transliterations <iabe>; it is "Jehovah" that is the totally artificial realization (of the vowels of...
Dear Peter, I gave Moscati not as textbook for Aramaic, but as most simple introd. to Semitic languages and added to it Hetzron as to clarify pecularities of...
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Jan 3, 2006 9:24 am
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Dear Peter, See my comments below. ... From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> To: <aramaic@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 11:30...
... Res ipsa loquitur. Are we to conclude that these two long messages are a distillation of decades of special pleading, just like what we have recently been...
... The person who asked the original question is not a college student with access to a teacher. Nor, for that matter, does the person have access to an...
Dear Peter, 1. Can you show me how Moscati's info. on Aramaic is tainted. I would be more than happy to accept your views if I see the reasons. 2. Can you cite...
Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin
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... As I said, all the Syriac verb forms are wrong, because they don't do V --> a before r. Gelb recommended Zimmern 1898, and except for not including...
Gorgias Press released the new book listed below. More details on each book can be found on www.gorgiaspress.com. Author: William Taylor Title: Antioch and...
Thank you, Peter. Best wishes, Hayim ============ Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin Adjunct Professor of Jewish Literature Gratz College 7605 Old York Rd. Melrose Park, PA...
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Shlama/Shalom Help Please! Does somebody have the pages 4 and 5 of the manuscript of Crawford please? Can somebody send me to it them? I requested them to...
Greenspahn's Introduction to Aramaic uses (made-up) exercises in which the morphologically plural )LHY) ????? is the subject of a singular verb (pages 11-12 of...
Singular )LH), plural )LHYN, )LHY, )LHY) I didn't find this usage in BA, BTA or in PA, For BA I checked in concordance, but I did not look in Talmudic ...
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Jan 18, 2006 7:45 pm
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The texts were available up until a few weeks ago but apparently have now all been removed. Does anyone have an explanation of why or when access might be...
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... I just went to the site and am able to see all the texts.......you might have an issue with your web browser. Michael Towns...
... From: "Michael W. Towns" <mtowns@...> To: <aramaic@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [aramaic] Old Testament...
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Code: ZE06012220 Date: 2006-01-22 Praying in Jesus' Own Language Interview With Professor of Chaldean Liturgy VATICAN CITY, JAN. 22, 2006 (Zenit.org...
... Hardly, whether they're using Syriac or a Modern Aramaic -- Jesus presumably spoke a Western Aramaic variety. (He could have gotten away with it without...
The statement of the professor of Chaldean Liturgy about Aramaic language of Jesus that it is identical to language used in Chaldean Church cannot be true,...
Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin
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Jan 23, 2006 10:57 pm
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I am a graduate student at Hawai'i Pacific University. In the phonology course I am presently taking we need to write a paper looking at a phonological...
... The first remark is to not take on a topic you don't have any way of researching! Any grammar of any variety of Aramaic will begin with a discussion of the...
Thank you so much. That gets me started in a direction. The phonological differences are the ones I am most interested in. Thanks again. A big help. Jeff...
Thanks for your help. I understand this is a great undertaking, but I love a challenge. I have studied modern Hebrew, so possibly using that as a spring...