The Contribution of Qumran Aramaic to the Study of the New Testament
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in New Testament Studies
- Vol. 20 (4), 382-407
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0028688500012224
Abstract
Our knowledge of the corpus of extra-biblical and extra-rabbinical Aramaic texts has largely been the acquisition of the last seventy-five to a hundred years. Through numerous discoveries in Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Indus Valley we have come to know what various phases of Aramaic were like from the tenth century B.C. until roughly the eighth century A.D. This knowledge has enabled us to situate the biblical Aramaic of Ezra and Daniel in a matrix similar to that provided by extra-biblical Hebrew texts for biblical Hebrew.Keywords
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