Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10049
Kim Phillips
{"title":"Codex Climaci Rescriptus I","authors":"Kim Phillips","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10049","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a fresh transcription of Codex Climaci Rescriptus <jats:sc>I</jats:sc>, a Christian Palestinian Aramaic manuscript from the Early Period (ca. 6th century), containing parts of Matthew’s Gospel and Mark’s Gospel. The transcription has been made from high resolution multi-spectral images. In addition, an extended introduction examines the codicology of the manuscript and its paratextual features.","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10048
Shlomi Efrati
{"title":"Targum Chronicles","authors":"Shlomi Efrati","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10048","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I describe two manuscripts of Targum Chronicles that, for different reasons, were not used in editions and studies of this rare Targum. First, manuscript Berlin, <jats:sc>SB</jats:sc> Or. fol. 4, Bible with a complete set of Targums. I analyse its textual character and point out its resemblance to manuscript Berlin, <jats:sc>SB</jats:sc> Or. fol. 1210–1211 (a.k.a. Erfurt 1). And second, manuscript Dresden, <jats:sc>SLUB</jats:sc>, A.46. Thought to have been lost during the Second World War, the manuscript is in fact partly legible and supplies an important additional witness for the last chapters, at least, of Targum Chronicles. Based on this newly available data I demonstrate the complexity of the textual traditions of Targum Chronicles and the need for a re-evaluation of its transmission and reception.","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10051
Anton Pritula
{"title":"Poems on Mār Qūryāqōs by ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gāzartā","authors":"Anton Pritula","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10051","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines poems dedicated to the martyr Qūryāqōs by the eminent East Syriac poet and patriarch ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gāzartā (d. 1570). For the first time the peculiarities of these works and their place in the development of Syriac poetry are examined. Additionally, a critical edition and translation of one of the poems, the <jats:italic>turgāmā</jats:italic>, is given, based on available manuscripts. A special place in the article is given to the correlation of the poetic texts under consideration with the prose versions of the hagiography of this martyr, which was used as a source by ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gāzartā.","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10050
Eran Cohen
{"title":"Free Indirect Discourse in Neo-Aramaic Narrative Folktales","authors":"Eran Cohen","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10050","url":null,"abstract":"Free indirect discourse (<jats:sc>FID</jats:sc>) is a literary, or narrative device which allows access to the thoughts and feelings of a protagonist, from his or her own perspective. <jats:sc>FID</jats:sc> is formally viewed as lying on the scale between indirect discourse (<jats:sc>ID</jats:sc>) and direct discourse (<jats:sc>DD</jats:sc>). It is non-embedded, consisting of a blend of features, few intrinsic to <jats:sc>ID</jats:sc>, while the rest are associated with <jats:sc>DD</jats:sc>. The paper aims to discuss the nature of the <jats:sc>FID</jats:sc> phenomenon in North Eastern Neo-Aramaic, based on folktales told in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho, while paying close attention to the wider context, and more specifically, to the discourse type surrounding <jats:sc>FID</jats:sc>.","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"266 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10044
Sergey Minov
{"title":"An Unpublished Anti-Jewish Syriac Dialogue from Turfan","authors":"Sergey Minov","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents the unpublished Syriac text of an anonymous anti-Jewish dialogue preserved fragmentarily in the manuscript SyrHT 94 [T <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">II</span> B 50 = 1682] from the Berlin Turfan-Collection. The dialogue, which combines scriptural and rational polemical arguments, is an important witness to the development of the <em>adversus Judaeos</em> literary tradition among Syriac Christians during the Islamic period. The text is accompanied by an English translation and a brief discussion.</p>","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139028455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10045
Anna Bromirskaya, Charles G. Häberl, Sergey Loesov
{"title":"The Western Aramaic Context of a Famous Lullaby","authors":"Anna Bromirskaya, Charles G. Häberl, Sergey Loesov","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present text concerns a traditional lullaby, sung throughout the Levant in various versions, of which the most famous was produced by the Rahbani brothers and sung by Fairouz. The framing story surrounding the lullaby, which is only implicit in the Rahbani version, concerns themes such as kidnapping and the age-old conflict between transhumant pastoral groups and sedentary agriculturalists. Despite the perennial widespread popularity of the lullaby, aspects of its framing story point to its origins in Maaloula.</p>","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139028482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10046
Shlomi Efrati
{"title":"The Many Quarrels of Cain and Abel: A Targumic Expansion Reconsidered","authors":"Shlomi Efrati","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Various Targums to the Pentateuch include an expansion to the biblical story of Cain and Abel, where the two brothers engage in a debate concerning divine justice and providence. The contents and form of the targumic debate vary widely, and its textual problems and possible theological and historical contexts have been discussed extensively. In this paper, I reconsider the relationships between the different versions of the debate in light of previously unnoticed textual evidence, primarily from textual witnesses of Targum Onqelos. I show that the Palestinian Targum tradition conflates, in different ways, two alternative versions of the debate, whereas some witnesses of Onqelos preserve only one of these versions in a slightly different form. I conclude that these witnesses preserve a source which was also used by the PalTg tradition and are not derived from the PalTg sources at our disposal.</p>","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139028556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10047
Jeroen Verrijssen
{"title":"The Liturgical Targum to Pesach","authors":"Jeroen Verrijssen","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents the Targum text to Exod. 13:17–15:26 (the reading for the seventh day of Pesach) in the form that it is preserved in mahzorim (or festival prayerbooks). These liturgical manuscripts are witnesses to a textual tradition, hereafter named the “Liturgical Targum” (LTg), that is genealogically related to the broader Palestinian Targum tradition (PalTg), sharing a common source with other PalTg witnesses such as Targum Neofiti and the Fragment Targums. As reading traditions changed over time, and the role of Targum diminished within the synagogue, the text of LTg evolved: units ranging from individual words to entire verses of PalTg were removed or replaced with units of Targum Onqelos (TgOnq). Other PalTg texts show signs of this process of “Onqelosization,” including the text of Fragment Targum P (FragTg<sup>P</sup>), an enigmatic manuscript that contains the festival reading for the seventh day of Pesach (among other things). This paper will argue two main points: 1. the units of Targum that are shared between LTg and other members of the PalTg tradition show influence by TgOnq (i.e., “Onqelosization”); 2. FragTg<sup>P</sup> contains part of a text that is directly related to LTg and also contains Onqelosization.</p>","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139028792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10042
H. Patmore
{"title":"A Previously Overlooked Manuscript of Fragment Targum (EVR II A 371, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg)","authors":"H. Patmore","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10042","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Fragment Targums contain selections of verses from the Pentateuch and form a distinct textual family within the Palestinian Targum tradition. To date, our understanding of their textual tradition has been based on nine manuscripts (excluding those copied from printed texts). This article introduces another manuscript of Fragment Targum that has been previously overlooked. The article describes the manuscript’s content, provides a preliminary characterisation of the text’s relationship to the other extant witnesses of the Fragment Targums and the other Pentateuchal Targums, and considers some possible implications of this new witness for our understanding of the origins, purpose, and transmission history of the Fragment Targums.","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47691215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aramaic StudiesPub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10041
Margaretha Folmer, Rivka Elitzur-Leiman
{"title":"A Jewish Aramaic Circus Curse Tablet from Antioch","authors":"Margaretha Folmer, Rivka Elitzur-Leiman","doi":"10.1163/17455227-bja10041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this contribution we publish a lead circus curse tablet written in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic (Princeton Art Museum excavation no. 3608-I57). The tablet was found in 1935 during excavations near the first turning-post at the hippodrome of Antioch on the Orontes (modern-day Antakya, Turkey). The use of Greek and Latin defixiones agonisticae (agonistic binding spells) in chariot races was a wide-spread phenomenon during the Roman Byzantine Period. Curse tablets were inscribed with aggressive incantations that aimed at the defeat of rivals in the chariot races. The tablet under discussion is a unique piece: It is the only known lead circus curse tablet that was written in a Jewish language and script. The tablet is datable to the fifth or sixth century CE .","PeriodicalId":41594,"journal":{"name":"Aramaic Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135449722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}