A Jewish Neo Aramaic Dictionary

Author : Yona Sabar
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Aramaic language
ISBN : 3447045574

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A Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dictionary by Yona Sabar Pdf

This dictionary is based on old and recent manuscripts, printed texts, literary Midrashic texts, recorded oral Bible translations, folk literature, and diverse spoken registers. It has an extensive introduction, including a brief history of the Jewish dialects and their relations to older Aramaic, detailed observations on orthography, phonology, morphology, semantics, and other related grammatical features, that will serve the users well. The source for each word is indicated, including context quotations when necessary. A special effort was made to trace the origin of each and every word, be it native (classical and Talmudic Aramaic, Syriac etc.), or a loan word (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, general European). The Dictionary includes an index to all the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic words which have cognates or reflexes in Jewish Neo-Aramaic, a very important tool for the history of comparative linguistic studies of Aramaic. The Dictionary will be useful for scholars of Neo-Aramaic as well as classical and Talmudic Aramaic and Syriac, Semitic Languages, Jewish Languages, Languages in Contact, and other Near Eastern Languages in general. It is the first scholarly dictionary of Jewish Neo-Aramaic, and is intended to be a linguistic monument to the community that spoke it for many centuries until its emigration to Israel.

Author : Yona Sabar
Publisher : Gorgias Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1463241445

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English - Neo-Aramaic Dictionary by Yona Sabar Pdf

"Based on Sabar's 2002 Jewish Neo-Aramaic dictionary, this dictionary serves a functional purpose for readers and scholars who would like to know the Neo-Aramaic vocabulary. It does not include grammatical or semantic details but does include the origin of the words, be it native Old Aramaic, and, in the case of loanwords, the original lending language, Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, etc"--

Author : Michael Sokoloff
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015056212718

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A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the ... by Michael Sokoloff Pdf

Since the Middle Ages, lexographies of Talmudic and other rabbinic literature have combined in one entry Babylonian, Palestinian, and Targumic words from various periods. Because morphologically identical words in even closely related dialects can frequently differ in both meaning and nuance, their consolidation into one dictionary entry is often misleading. Scholars now realize the need to treat each dialect separately, and in A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Michael Sokoloff provides a complete lexicon of the dialect spoken and written by Jews in Palestine during the Byzantine period, from the third century C.E. to the tenth century. Sokoloff draws on a wide range of sources, from inscriptions discovered in the remains of synagogues and on amulets, fragments of letters and other documents, poems, and marginal notations to local Targumim, the Palestinian Midrashim and Talmud, texts addressing religious law (halacha), and Palestinian marriage documents (ketubbot) from the Arabic period. Many of these sources were unavailable to previous lexographers, who based their dictionaries on corrupt nineteenth-century editions of the rabbinic literature. The discovery of new manuscripts in both European libraries and the Cairo Geniza over the course of the twentieth century has revolutionized the textual basis of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. Each entry in A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic is divided into six parts: lemma or root, part of speech, English gloss, etymology, semantic features, and bibliographic references. Sokoloff also includes an index of all cited passages. This major reference work, updated to reflect the publication of new texts over the last decade, will both provide students and scholars with a tool for an accurate understanding of the Aramaic dialect of Jewish Palestinian literature of the Byzantine period and help Aramaist and Semitic linguists to see the relationship between this dialect and others, especially the contemporary dialects of Palestine.

Author : Oz Aloni
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800643048

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The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho by Oz Aloni Pdf

In 1951, the secluded Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho migrated collectively to Israel. It carried with it its unique language, culture and customs, many of which bore resemblance to those found in classical rabbinic literature. Like others in Kurdistan, for example, the Jews of Zakho retained a vibrant tradition of creating and performing songs based on embellishing biblical stories with Aggadic traditions. Despite the recent growth of scholarly interest into Neo-Aramaic communities, however, studies have to this point almost exclusively focused on the linguistic analysis of their critically endangered dialects and little attention has been paid to the sociological, historical and literary analysis of the cultural output of the diverse and isolated Neo-Aramaic communities of Kurdistan. In this innovative book, Oz Aloni seeks to redress this balance. Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author's own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative context, the rewritten biblical narrative of Ruth, Naomi and King David, and a folktale with the unusual theme of magical gender transformation. Insightfully breaking down these examples with analysis drawn from a variety of conceptual fields, Aloni succeeds in his mission to put the speakers of the language and their culture on equal footing with their speech. The Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have kindly supported the publication of this volume

Author : Michael Sokoloff
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0801872332

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A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods by Michael Sokoloff Pdf

The first new dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic in a century, this towering scholarly achievement provides a complete lexicon of the entire vocabulary used in both literary and epigraphic sources from the Jewish community in Babylon from the third century C.E. to the twelfth century. Author Michael Sokoloff's primary source is, of course, the Babylonian Talmud, one of the most important and influential works in Jewish literature. Unlike the authors of previous dictionaries of this dialect, however, he also uses a variety of other sources, from inscriptions and legal documents to other rabbinical literature. A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic also differs from earlier lexographic efforts in its focus on a single dialect. Previous dictionaries have been composite works containing various Aramaic dialects from different periods, blurring distinctions in meaning and nuance. Sokoloff has been able to draw on the most current linguistic and textual scholarship to ensure the complete accuracy of his lexical entries, each of which is divided into six parts: lemma or root, part of speech, English gloss, etymology, semantic features, and bibliographic references. Another important feature in this invaluable reference work is its index of all cited passages, which allows the reader of a given text to easily find the semantics of a particular word. In addition to linguists and specialists in Jewish Aramaic literature, lay readers and students will also find this comprehensive, up-to-date dictionary useful for understanding the Babylonian Talmud.

Author : Geoffrey Khan,Paul M. Noorlander
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783749508

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Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic by Geoffrey Khan,Paul M. Noorlander Pdf

The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit a remarkable diversity of structures. Moreover, the considerable depth of attestation of Aramaic from earlier periods provides evidence for pathways of change. For these reasons the research of Neo-Aramaic is of importance for more general fields of linguistics, in particular language typology and historical linguistics. The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects. They advance the field in numerous ways. In order to allow linguists who are not specialists in Neo-Aramaic to benefit from the papers, the examples are fully glossed.

Author : Wolfhart Heinrichs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004369535

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Studies in Neo-Aramaic by Wolfhart Heinrichs Pdf

Author : Georg Fohrer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 3110045729

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Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary of the Old Testament by Georg Fohrer Pdf

Author : Hezy Mutzafi
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aramaic language
ISBN : 3447057106

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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Betanure (province of Dihok) by Hezy Mutzafi Pdf

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Betanure, which has hitherto remained unattested, is among the rarest and most seriously endangered varieties of Aramaic spoken at the present time. One of the most archaizing Jewish Neo-Aramaic varieties and a member of the Lishana Deni dialect cluster of northernmost Iraq, the dialect is currently spoken in Israel by no more than three dozen elderly people, of whom only a small minority are pro'cient speakers. The grammatical description of the dialect is synchronic, but it includes etymological and historical comments as well as several paragraphs dealing with diachronic processes. The large and variegated corpus of texts, based on narratives furnished by the last two superb speakers of the dialect, comprises, inter alia, descriptions of the village of Betanure and its history, the fauna and ?ora of the region, agriculture and other occupations of the Jewish villagers, customs and traditions, legends, folktales, anecdotes and amusing stories. The glossary is extensively etymological and offers much comparative data drawn from numerous Neo-Aramaic varieties, apart from recourse to Classical Aramaic lexical data.

Author : Steven Ellis Fassberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004176829

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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa by Steven Ellis Fassberg Pdf

Aramaic has been spoken uninterruptedly for more than 3000 years, yet a generation from now most Aramaic dialects will be extinct. The study of the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects has increased dramatically in the past decade as linguists seek to record these dialects before the disappearance of their last speakers. This work is a unique documentation of the now extinct Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa (modern-day Çukurca, Turkey). It is based on recordings of the last native speaker of the dialect, who passed away in 2007. In addition to a grammatical description, it contains sample texts and a glossary of the dialect. Jewish Challa belongs to the cluster of NENA dialects known as 'lishana deni' and reference is made throughout to other dialects within this group.

Author : Hezy Mutzafi
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Aramaic language
ISBN : 3447049154

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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Koy Sanjaq (Iraqi Kurdistan) by Hezy Mutzafi Pdf

Revised thesis (doctoral), - Tel Aviv University, 2000.

Author : Geoffrey Khan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004305045

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A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic by Geoffrey Khan Pdf

Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction. This volume, the result of extensive fieldwork, contains a description of the dialect spoken by the Jews from the region of Arbel (Iraqi Kurdistan), together with a transcription of recorded texts and a glossary. The grammar consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax, preceded by an introductory chapter examining the position of this dialect in relation to the other known Neo-Aramaic dialects. The transcribed texts record folktales and accounts of customs, traditions and experiences of the Jews of Kurdistan.

Author : Jared Greenblatt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004192300

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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amədya by Jared Greenblatt Pdf

This work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Amǝdya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. Included are edited transcriptions and translations of a selection of texts recorded in the dialect on a variety of topics and in a variety of genres, including folk-tales and oral history.

Author : Dorota Molin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004690578

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The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of Dohok by Dorota Molin Pdf

This book combines in-depth grammatical analysis with dialectology and typology. It presents important features of Jewish Neo-Aramaic from Dohok (Iraqi Kurdistan), a previously undocumented dialect that is now on the verge of extinction. The first Neo-Aramaic grammar to offer data glossing, this book is accessible for and highly relevant to Semitists, language typologists and historical linguists. It focuses especially on phonology, verbal morphosyntax and syntax. The monograph also highlights features that characterise the wider lišana deni dialect group, which is the most widespread Jewish Neo-Aramaic today. The book leverages the staggering microvariation persisting within North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic to reconstruct the grammaticalisation of some key Neo-Aramaic constructions. It also includes a text sample of prime historiographic value (Jews of Iraq during the Second World War).

Author : Jan Joosten,Daniel Machiela,Jean-Sébastien Rey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004366770

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The Reconfiguration of Hebrew in the Hellenistic Period by Jan Joosten,Daniel Machiela,Jean-Sébastien Rey Pdf

The present volume of proceedings offers cutting-edge research on the Hebrew language in the late Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Fourteen specialists of ancient Hebrew illuminate various aspects of the language, from phonology through grammar and syntax to semantics and interpretation.