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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...

Cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Chicago, and Detroit are home to large Aramaic-speaking communities; you might also overhear people chatting in an Aramaic dialect while waiting for the London Tube or on a Toronto subway car. And so it goes on and on. These are the gravitational waves of a culture with an ancient history, starting around 1000 BCE, reaching the present. The Jewish and Christian scriptures were canonized in an Aramaic-speaking world and largely shaped by it, affecting the pronunciation
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