The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria

94 holger gzella refers to the “internal” viewpoint of a situation as completed or in prog­ ress regardless of its location on t ...

language and script 95 however, does not necessarily match the situation in old aramaic. the “perfect” with dynamic verbs usuall ...

96 holger gzella 2 masc. pl. tktbn /ta­ktob­ūn/ tktbw /ta­ktob­ū/ 2 fem. pl. (unattested) (unattested) 1 pl. (later nktb /na­kto ...

language and script 97 to foreshadow the consistent use of /l­/ (secondarily shifting to /n­/ in, e.g., classical Syriac) in the ...

98 holger gzella i.e., obligations, wishes, and permissions, but it remains confined to the second person. imperatives cannot oc ...

language and script 99 archaic form without an /m­/ prefix, lost in later aramaic,84 but the tell fekheriye text consistently us ...

100 holger gzella (/tz/ > /zd/, /tṣ/ > /ṣṭ/). in addition to that, the three active stems also dispose of an apophonic pas ...

language and script 101 instead of a prefixed, /­t­/. this form, exceptional in aramaic, may be a vestige of an older stage of S ...

102 holger gzella indeed be accepted,98 the word in question may simply be a lexical loan. nothing points to a functional opposi ...

language and script 103 /yaʿʿol/ ‘he enters’ (Kai 222 B: 35, “imperfect”). d­stem forms inflect like sound roots; perhaps the sa ...

104 holger gzella Many verbs have a “perfect” in /­ā/ (/­ay­/ before consonantal afforma­ tives, /­āt/ in the third­person fem. ...

language and script 105 salient) direct objects can be introduced by the particle ʾyt /ʾiyyāt/ in ara­ maic in western Syria or ...

106 holger gzella e.g., ʾnš /ʾenāš/ ‘man, person’, yhb ‘to give’, mrʾ /māreʾ/ ‘lord’, ʿbd ‘to make’, and qdm /qodām/ ‘in front o ...

language and script 107 instead of the usual aramaic and Samʾalian form hwī.114 individual words could also have been borrowed f ...

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chapter five Literature paolo Merlo introduction the corpus of ancient aramaic texts is rather limited and cannot be com- pare ...

110 paolo merlo during the assyrian and Babylonian rule over these regions). for the sake of comprehensiveness, the latter theor ...

literature 111 an inscribed decree about fugitives or agents (Kai 317), some inscribed weights, and some brief records. aramaic ...

112 paolo merlo 4.1 The Ideal King: Pious, Victorious, Just, and a Builder the first literary pattern of the royal inscriptions ...

literature 113 no details of the palace of Bar-rakkab are mentioned and hence we can reasonably presume that all these statement ...