TY - BOOK ID - 126750197 TI - A dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine period PY - 2002 PB - Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University, DB - UniCat KW - Aramaic language UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:126750197 AB - Jewish Palestinian Aramaic was the language spoken and written by the Jews of Eretz Israel during the Talmudic and Post-Talmudic Periods (3rd - 8th cents. C.E.) until it was displaced by Arabic. The major literary productions of this period were composed either completely (e.g. the Palestinian Targums) or partially (e.g. the Palestinian Talmud and Midrashim) in this language.All of the existing dictionaries which include the vocabulary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic are outdated, since they were composed before the important manuscript discoveries of the last hundred years from European libraries and the Cairo Geniza. These have both enriched the number of sources of this language and have provided a more reliable textual base for previously known compositions.As the basis of this dictionary, the author has utilized the entire corpus of texts according to the most reliable manuscript sources. In addition to the dictionary itself with its approximately 6,000 entries, the volume includes an index of all passages quoted with their entry, in order to make the dictionary eminently more usable.This work is indispensable for all scholars working in the fields of Aramaic and Semitic linguistics, Rabbinic literature and the languages of Eretz Israel in late antiquity. ER -