Making Sense of Fragmentary Qumran Aramaic Texts. Two Case Studies on Contradictory Grammatical vs. Content or Genre Considerations

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dc.contributor.authorStadel, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-14T11:46:56Z
dc.date.available2025-01-14T11:46:56Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractFragmentary ancient texts are notoriously difficult to interpret. In this article, I offer case studies on two short sections of Qumran Aramaic texts. Part 1 analyses the various possible syntactic parsings of 4Q242 1-3, 4 and assesses the extent to which they conform to the grammar of Qumran Aramaic. Based on this assessment, I present my interpretation of the line and offer a potential reconstruction for the end of the preceding line 3. Part 2 shows how methodological decisions of the modern editors of 4Q560 1 I, 3; 5 on the text’s similarity to later Jewish incantations (or lack thereof) have yielded completely different interpretations. In this respect, I argue that the Aramaic is ambiguous, allowing for at least two different coherent readings.
dc.identifier.citation"The Biblical Annals", 2024, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 637-649
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/ba.17101
dc.identifier.issn2451-2168
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/8152
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherKUL Publishing House
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDead Sea Scrolls
dc.subjectAramaic
dc.subject4Q242 Prayer of Nabonid
dc.subject4Q560 Magical Text
dc.subjectsyntax
dc.subjectgenre
dc.subjectincantation
dc.titleMaking Sense of Fragmentary Qumran Aramaic Texts. Two Case Studies on Contradictory Grammatical vs. Content or Genre Considerations
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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