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The second through seventh chapters of Daniel are ones to note, because instead of being written in Hebrew, they are written in Aramaic. Recognizing that these chapters are written in Aramaic is important because it gives us a better understanding of symbolism and how it is handled in biblical narrative. By utilizing The Aramaic of Daniel in the Light of Old Aramaic, you are able to gain...

Even today, when we possess much more Aramaic material, Greenfield’s statements sounds very much like the statement made by P.R. Ackroyd in 1953.1 Another problem, and this time a special intra-biblical one, is our inability to know how much scribal updating was practiced in the transmission of DA. That there was some updating in the process of transmission is widely held by scholars.2 To this one can add a question recently raised on differences between a written and spoken language (or phonology
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