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Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Jewish Western Aramaic was a Western Aramaic language spoken by the Jews during the Classic Era in Judea and the Levant, specifically in Hasmonean, Herodian and Roman Judaea and adjacent lands in the late first millennium BCE, and later in Syria Palaestina and Palaestina Secunda in the early first millennium CE.
It is written largely in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, a Western Aramaic language that differs from its Babylonian counterpart. [10] This Talmud is a synopsis of the analysis of the Mishnah that was developed for nearly 200 years by the Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina (principally those of Tiberias and Caesarea ).
Over thousands of years, Old Aramaic varieties, like Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, and Rabbinic Aramaic, evolved into several dialects of Jewish Neo-Aramaic spoken by Jews from Zakho, Iraq in the west, to Bijar, Iran in the east.
Aramaic have been defined, Jewish Palestinian Aramaic (JPA), and Jewish Baby-lonian Aramaic (JBA), on an ethno-linguistic basis. This is to say that JPA is the Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Palestine during certain periods, which differed in identifiable respects from the Aramaic dialect employed, for example, by Chris-
ish Palestinian Aramaic (JPA), in ten major divisions: I. Inscriptions, mostly from the remains of synagogues. II. Targums; specifically: Targum Neofiti, the Genizah fragments of the Palestinian tar-gums, and the Fragment Targums. III. Palestinian Midrash. IV. Palestinian Talmud. V. Fragments of halachic literature of the Ga-onic period. VI.
Aramaic has been recorded for the past three thousand years. It began as a local language in Syria, before expanding to be written and then spoken throughout the Near East for more than a millennium.
Scholars now realize the need to treat each dialect separately, and in A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Michael Sokoloff provides a complete lexicon of the dialect spoken and...
