The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria

CONTENTS

List of Maps and Plates .................................................................................. ix
List of Abbreviations ....................................................................................... xiii
List of Contributors ......................................................................................... xxi
Preface (Herbert Niehr) ................................................................................. xxiii

i. introduction (Herbert Niehr) ............................................................... 1

ii. History (Hélène Sader) ........................................................................... 11

1. Geographical and Chronological Scope ...................................... 11


2. The Sources for a History of the Aramaeans of Ancient
   Syria ........................................................................................................ 13


3. The Aramaeans in the iron Age i (1200–900 B.C.): From
   Kin-Based Groups to Polities .......................................................... 16


4. The iron Age ii: Aramaean Polities and the Assyrian
   Conquest ................................................................................................ 27


5. Concluding Remarks .......................................................................... 36

iii. Society, institutions, Law, and Economy (dagmar Kühn) .......... 37

1. Society .................................................................................................... 37


2. institutions ............................................................................................ 47


3. Law and Jurisdiction .......................................................................... 61


4. Economy ................................................................................................ 62

iV. Language and Script (Holger Gzella) ................................................. 71

1. introduction ......................................................................................... 71


2. Script and Orthography .................................................................... 76


3. Phonology ............................................................................................. 79


4. Morphology and Morphosyntax ..................................................... 84


5. Syntax ..................................................................................................... 105


6. Lexicon ................................................................................................... 105

V. Literature (Paolo Merlo) ........................................................................ 109

1. introduction ......................................................................................... 109


2. Terminology ......................................................................................... 109