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Today, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the modern-Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the Old Hebrew script. In classical Jewish literature , the name given to the modern-Hebrew script was "Ashurit", the ancient Assyrian script, [17] a script now known widely as the Aramaic script.
Today Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the Hebrew alphabet, while the Syriac alphabet is used to write Syriac and Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects, and the Mandaic alphabet is used for Mandaic.
Learn the Aramaic alphabet, which is identical to the Hebrew alphabet, and how it differs from Hebrew in some consonantal spellings. See examples of Aramaic words that share Hebrew roots with slight variations.
Biblical Aramaic is the form of Aramaic that is used in the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Hebrew Bible. It should not be confused with the Targums – Aramaic paraphrases, explanations and expansions of the Hebrew scriptures.
- Ancient Aramaic. Ancient Aramaic is the language of the ancient Aramaic inscriptions up to 700 B.C.E. (from Upper Mesopotamia, northern Syria, and northern Israel).
- Official Aramaic. Official Aramaic was in use from 700 to 300 B.C.E. It includes inscriptions from the Syria-Iraq area; biblical Aramaic (though opinions vary as to its origin in the different biblical passages, see below Ancient and Official Aramaic, and the Origin of the Aramaic Portions in Ezra and Daniel); the *Elephantine documents; the Driver documents; and the Hermopolis documents.
- Middle Aramaic. Middle Aramaic was used from 300 B.C.E. to the early centuries C.E. Included are documents, in somewhat corrupt Aramaic, from Persia, India, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus.
- Late Aramaic. Late Aramaic may be divided into two dialectal groups: Western Aramaic – including Galilean Aramaic, Palestinian-Christian Aramaic, and Samaritan Aramaic; and Eastern Aramaic – consisting of three dialects: Syriac, the language of the Babylonian Talmud, and Mandaic.
Aramaic alphabet, major writing system in the Middle East in the latter half of the 1st millennium bce. Derived from the North Semitic script, the Aramaic alphabet was developed in the 10th and 9th centuries bce and came into prominence after the conquest of the Aramaean states by Assyria in the 9th and 8th centuries bce.
Jul 20, 2019 · An Introduction to the Aramaic Alphabet. Most Bible readers wouldn't be surprised to hear that most of the Old Testament is written in Hebrew. It might surprise them to find out just how much...
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