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In this volume—the first complete history of Aramaic from its origins to the present day—Holger Gzella provides an accessible overview of the language perhaps most well known for being spoken by Jesus of Nazareth. Gzella, one of the world’s foremost Aramaicists, begins with the earliest evidence of Aramaic in inscriptions from the beginning of the first millennium BCE, then traces its emergence...

selection of more specialized recent scholarly literature is cited in the footnotes in order to support the argument of the main text. The notes also mention the most useful grammars or grammar sketches, dictionaries, and historical introductions for each period. In this way, the reader is safely introduced to the most important outcomes of the scholarly discussion, which is usually conducted at a highly technical level. For the sake of methodological transparency, grammatical details will also frequently
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