New books on Christian Palestinian Aramaic

NEW BOOKS FROM PEETERS (ARAMAIC WATCH):

A Dictionary of Christian Palestinian Aramaic

Series:
Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 234

Authors: Sokoloff M.

Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-90-429-3183-1
Pages: XLII-466 p.
Price: 90 EURO

Summary:
Christian Palestinian Aramaic is the name of the Aramaic dialect spoken and written by the Melkite community in Palestine during the first millennium CE. Nearly all of the texts that have survived in this dialect are translations of religious texts originally composed in Greek for the use of members of this community whose only language was Aramaic.
The only complete dictionary of this dialect was published over a century ago by Fr. Schulthess in 1903. However, since then, many new texts have been published and many previously known ones have been restudied and republished more accurately by various scholars.
The present work has taken into account all of the existing texts as well as the secondary literature in order to make this new dictionary an essential tool for Aramaic scholarship.


Texts of Various Contents in Christian Palestinian Aramaic

Series:
Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 235

Authors: Sokoloff M.

Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-90-429-3184-8
Pages: X-247 p.
Price: 70 EURO

Summary:
This book has been planned to be used together with the author's Dictionary of Christian Palestinian Aramaic. The texts which form the basis of this volume were originally published in a large number of scattered publications making both their citation in the dictionary and their use by the reader difficult. The purpose of the present work has been to gather all of these texts into one convenient volume and to republish them in the original Palestinian Aramaic script and format. Additionally, a number of Appendices dealing with this Aramaic dialect have been added to clarify other issues concerning the dictionary.