Aramaic Language

Reading List

J. A. Fitzmyer and S. Kaufmann, An Aramaic Bibliography, Part 1: Old, Official and Biblical Aramaic (CALP; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)

Glosses for the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts
G. Dalman, Aramäisch-neuhebräisches Wörterbuch zu Targum, Talmud und Midrasch (Frankfurt a. M.: J. Kauffmann, 1901)
J. Hoftijzer & K. Jongeling, Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995)
W.L. Holladay, A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: Brill, 2000)
M. Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature | A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature: Volume I and II
M. Sokoloff, A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period (Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1990)
Targum Lexicon | Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project

G. Dalman, Grammatik des Jüdisch-Palästinischen Aramäisch (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1905)
R. Degen, Altaramaische Grammatik der Inschriften des 10.-8. Jh.v. Chr. (Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1969)
S.E. Fassberg, A Grammar of the Palestinian Targum Fragments from the Cairo Geniza (HSS; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1979)
F.E. Greenspahn, An Introduction to Aramaic, Second Edition (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003)
C. Levias, A Grammar of Galilean Aramaic to the Language of the Jerusalem Talmud and the Midrashim (Hebrew) (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1986)
F. Rosenthal, A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic (Wiesbaden: 1974)

M.G. Abegg, Jr., Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts | with morphological and lexical tags
K. Beyer, Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984) (Ergänzungsband: 1994)
J.A. Fitzmyer and D. J. Harrington, A Manual of Palestinian Aramaic Texts (Roma: Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 2002)
J.A. Fitzmyer, The Aramaic Inscriptions of Sefire (Roma: Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1995)
J.M. Lindenberger, Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003)
J. Naveh & S. Shaked, Magic Spells and Formulae: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press: 1993)
I. Eph’al & J. Naveh, Aramaic Ostraca of the Fourth Century BC from Idumaea (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press: 1996)

Targum Onqelos to the Pentateuch | Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch | Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project
Targum Neofiti to the Pentateuch | Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project
Targum Jonathan to the Prophets | Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project

D.R.G. Beattie & M.J. McNamara (eds.), The Aramaic Bible: Targums in Their Historical Context (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994)
H. Birkeland, The Language of Jesus (Avhandlinger Utgitt av det Norske Videnkaps-Akademi i Oslo II. Hist.-Filos. Kl., 1954/1; Oslo: Jacob Dybwad, 1954)
J. A. Fitzmyer, The Semitic Background of the New Testament, Volume 1 (Eerdmans, 1997)
E.Y. Kutscher, Studies in Galilean Aramaic (Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1976)
Z. Stefanovic, The Aramaic of Daniel in the Light of Old Aramaic (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992)

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