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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...

position on the geographic factor of DA: ‘The syntactical aspects of biblical Aramaic is [sic] the area where the most telling symptoms of dialectal affinity manifest themselves’.1 In undertaking the study of the syntax of DA, Coxon once again parts company with the old thesis, because recent discoveries have stimulated a reassessment of DA.2 The Aramaic documents from Qumran, especially the Targum to Job, have been evaluated as pointing quite definitely to a ‘pre-second-century date for the Aramaic
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