Wandering Arameans: Aramaeans outside Syria : textual and archaeological perspectives
I.Syria and Palestine.The cult at Tel Dan : Aramaean or Israelite? /Jonathan S. Greer --New light on linguistic diversity in pre-Achaemenid Aramaic : wandering Arameans or language spread? /Holger Gzella --"My father was a wandering Aramean" : Biblical views of the ancestral relationship b...
| Summary: | I.Syria and Palestine.The cult at Tel Dan : Aramaean or Israelite? /Jonathan S. Greer --New light on linguistic diversity in pre-Achaemenid Aramaic : wandering Arameans or language spread? /Holger Gzella --"My father was a wandering Aramean" : Biblical views of the ancestral relationship between Israel and Aram /Yigal Levin --Can material evidence of Aramean influences and presence in Iron Age Judah and Israel be found? /Aren M. Maeir --Balaam from Deir Allā : a peripheral Aramean? /Andreas Schüle --The battle of Ramoth-gilead and the rise of the Aramean hegemony in the southern Levant during the second half of the 9th century BCE /Omer Sergi.II.Mesopotamia and Egypt.Social climbing in the Babylonian exile /Angelika Berlejung --Babylonian scribal practices in rural contexts : a linguistic survey of the documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia (CUSAS 28 and BaAr 6) /Johannes Hackl --How "Mesopotamian" was Ahiquar the wise? The search for Ahiqar in cuneiform texts /Takayoshi M. Oshima --Late Babylonian in Aramaic epigraphs on cuneiform tablets /Michael P. Streck --Tiglath-Pileser I and the initial conflicts of the Assyrians with the Arameans /K. Lawson Younger, Jr. --Arameans in Egypt /Günter Vittmann. The present volume contains the updated versions of the papers presented at a workshop held at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Leipzig in October 2014. The intention of the workshop was to explore Aramean cultures and their impact on their neighbors, including linguistic influences. The division of the volume into the sections 'Syria and Palestine' and 'Mesopotamia and Egypt' reflects the areas in which the presence of Arameans or of their language, Aramaic, in the first millennium BCE is visible. Arameans (including the Aramaic languages) in Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Egypt cannot be treated as a single entity but have to be carefully distinguished. The contributions in this volume show that identifying 'Arameans' and defining pertinent identity markers is a difficult task. Interactions between Arameans, including their languages, and their neighbors were complex and depended on specific cultural and historical circumstances |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (298 pages), illustrations |
| ISBN: | 978-3-447-19576-8 3-447-19576-2 3-447-10727-8 978-3-447-10727-3 |