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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...

definitive proof. It is also unknown to what degree these dialects already resembled the Aramaic of the earliest inscriptions. In other words, the origins of Aramaic are obscure; as soon as it appears in writing, shortly aft er 1000 BCE, it has already assumed its familiar shape.3
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