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Biblical Aramaic

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Biblical Aramaic
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) (Linguistics / Languages) the form of Aramaic that was the common language of Palestine in New Testament times. It was widespread throughout the Persian Empire from the 5th century and is found in the later books of the Old Testament (esp Daniel 2:4-7:28)
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Noun1.Biblical Aramaic - the form of Aramaic that was spoken in Palestine in the time of the New Testament
Aramaic - a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia


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116 PJ5214 Despite great effort, grammarians have been unable to explain the verbal system of biblical Aramaic through standard categories of tense and aspect.
8) All this may not trouble modern Jews too much: Daniel is rarely studied and a large part of the book is in unfamiliar Biblical Aramaic, hence marginal to contemporary Jewish identity.
His Oxford research was on biblical Aramaic, the language in which part of Daniel was written, and he followed up the publication of this with a study entitled Darius the Mede and the Four World Empires in the Book of Daniel: A Historical Study of Contemporary Theories (1935).
 
 
 
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