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Article: The Aramaic Language in the Archaemenid Period: A Study in Linguistic Variation.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- October 1, 1998
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By M. L. FOLMER. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, vol. 68. Leuven: PEETERS PRESS: DEPT. OF ORIENTAL STUDIES, 1995. Pp. xviii + 849. FB 3800.
This is a grammar of the Aramaic language as attested by texts dating from the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. However, the contemporary Aramaic epigraphs on clay tablets, the vocalized Aramaic proper names attested in Late Babylonian documents, and the Aramaic texts from Qumran are not taken into account, although a part of the literary Qumran material is at least as old as the biblical book of Daniel. The volume reproduces a 1995 doctoral dissertation (Leiden) supervised by J. Hoftijzer. It divides into six chapters: ...