introduction 9
Since the mid-20th century, editions and studies of aramaic inscrip-
tions and texts62 along with works on philology,63 and detailed studies on
archaeology,64 art and architecture,65 and religion have been published
as well.66
62 cf. the following editions and translations: academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum
humaniorum (ed.) 1889–1976; cowley 1923; Koopmans 1962; donner – röllig 4–51971–
2002; Vattioni 1970; id. 1971a; id. 1971b; Grelot 1972; Gibson 1975; hoftijzer – van der Kooij
1976; delsmann 1982–1985; abou-assaf – Bordreuil – Millard 1982; Lipiński 1975; id. 1994;
id. 2010; rössler 1982–1985; Lemaire – durand 1984; Bordreuil 1986b: 75–107; Fales 1986;
porten – Yardeni 1986; iid. 1989; iid. 1993; iid. 1999; 2 otzen 1990; tropper 1993; Fitzmyer
1995; Lemaire 1996; id. 2001b; avigad 1997: 280–319; Schwiderski (ed.) 2004; id. (ed.)
2008; niehr 2007; healey 2009; porten et al. ²2011.
63 cf. degen 1969; Kaufman 1974; hug 1993; Gzella – Folmer (eds.) 2008.
64 cf. Lehmann 2002; akkermans – Schwarz^4 2006; huot 2004, and the contribution
of M. novák in this volume.
65 cf. orthmann 1971; Genge 1979; Bonatz 2000a; Winter 2010; Gilibert 2011, and the
contribution of d. Bonatz in this volume.
66 cf. hoftijzer 1968; Gese 1970: 216–229; Greenfield 1987; Kreuzer 1996; niehr 1998:
148–194; Lipiński 2000a: 599–640; Xella 2007: 69–94; Martínez Borobio 2008.