"But they could not read the writing": The Biblical Aramaic consonantal text, its reading tradition and their mutual interaction KU Leuven
Around one percent of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is written in a language that is closely related to Hebrew, known as Biblical Aramaic. Recent research has shown that Biblical Aramaic is not a single language, but a hybrid of at least two varieties of Aramaic. This project will make a state-of-the-art linguistic description of the language varieties making up Biblical Aramaic and investigate how they influenced each other. This will ...