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  • From: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
  • To: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Daniel's Aramaic
  • Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:39:39 +0100




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Bailey [SMTP:jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de]
> Sent: Sunday, 19 December, 1999 21:21
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Daniel's Aramaic
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
>
> >Daniel has chronology all wrong: if it were written when you would like
> it
> >the chronology wouldn't be in such a mess. Daniel's Aramaic is a farce,
> not
> >representing the Aramaic that it was trying to fake. Daniel has good
>
> Against what are you comparing the Aramaic of Daniel? What sort of studies
> have
> you read about Daniel's Aramaic?
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan Bailey
> Hochschule für Jüdische Studien
> Heidelberg
>
[Niels Peter Lemche] Don't know who sent the first mail. Daniel's
Aramaic to a casual reader seems somewhere between inscriptional Aramaic
from the Iron Age and Palestinian Aramaic, and later Syriac. Why should it
be a fake language? It has to be compared to Archaemenid and
post-Archaemenid Aramaic, but is somewhat removed from say the Aramaic of
the Sfire inscriptions.

NPL





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