From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries
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From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries

Select Studies in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek

  1. 521 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries

Select Studies in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek

About this book

These articles on Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek lexicography have arisen from papers presented at the International Syriac Language Project's 14th International Conference in St. Petersburg in 2014.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. Part 1: Aramaic Studies
  6. What to Do About Citing Ambiguity in a Corpus-Specific Lexicon
  7. The Jewish Recension of a Syriac Version of Aesop’s Fables
  8. Syriac Manuscripts from Turfan: Public Worship and Private Devotion
  9. Greek Imperatives and Corresponding Expressions in Christian Palestinian Aramaic
  10. Reading the Bible with the Taḥtāyā ḏa-Ṯlāṯā
  11. A New Mandaic Dictionary: Challenges, Accomplishments, and Prospects
  12. Qlido d-Leshono—Key of Language: A Comprehensive Syriac Lexicon by Abbot Yuyakim of Tur Islo
  13. Psalm 2 in Syriac: Issues of Text and Language
  14. Part 2: Hebrew Studies
  15. A Few Notes concerning the Reading of הסירותי in the Great Isaiah Scroll (Isa 50:6b)
  16. Cognitive Methodology in the Study of an Ancient Language: Impediments and Possibilities
  17. Towards a Science of Comparative Classical Hebrew Lexicography
  18. On Dating Biblical Hebrew Texts: Sources of Uncertainty / Analytic Options
  19. A Re-Examination of Grammatical Categorization in Biblical Hebrew
  20. Internationalisms in the Hebrew Press 1860s-1910s as a Means of Language Modernization
  21. Part 3: Greek Studies
  22. Preventing Drunkenness in the Christian Gathering: Hints from the Graeco- Roman World and the New Testament
  23. Basileia or Imperium? Rome and the Rhetoric of Resistance in the Revelation to John
  24. The Birth of European Linguistic Theory: The Idea of Language in the Sophists
  25. Amazement, Fear and Being Troubled in Responses in Gospel Miracle Stories: Establishing the Semantic Contours of the Terms and their Interrelations
  26. The Ass and the Lyre: On a Greek Proverb
  27. Constituent Order in and Usages of εἰμί – Participle Combinations in the Synoptics and Acts
  28. Redundancy, Discontinuity and Delimitation in the Epistle of James
  29. An Examination of Metarepresentation as an Essential Feature of Written and Oral Communication
  30. Prayer and the Papyri at Oxyrhynchus
  31. The Lexicographic Editor and the Problem of Consistency