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