A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period

by Michael Sokoloff

Since the Middle Ages, lexographies of Talmudic and other rabbinic literature have combined in one entry Babylonian, Palestinian, and Targumic words from various periods. Because morphologically identical words in even closely related dialects can frequently differ in both meaning and nuance, their consolidation into one dictionary entry is often misleading. Scholars now realize the need to treat each dialect separately, and in A Dictionary of Jewish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872340
• ISBN13: 9780801872341
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.2" x 9.7"