Servant (ʿebed) names in Aramaic and in the other semitic languages
As a preliminary step in the compilation of a corpus of personal names in the West-Semitic inscriptions and documents, the author examined the proper names in the Jewish-Aramaic documents from Edfû, Egypt, 4th to 2nd centuries B. C. E. It became apparent immediately that "servant names" (t...
| Subtitles: | Brief Communications |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
[Jul. - Sep., 1981]
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| In: |
JAOS
Year: 1981, Volume: 101, Issue: 3, Pages: 361-366 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aramaic language
/ Semitic languages
/ Name
/ Convention
/ Ephemerides
/ Judaism
/ Certification
/ Slavery
/ Dialectology
/ Papyrus
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (Publisher) |
| Summary: | As a preliminary step in the compilation of a corpus of personal names in the West-Semitic inscriptions and documents, the author examined the proper names in the Jewish-Aramaic documents from Edfû, Egypt, 4th to 2nd centuries B. C. E. It became apparent immediately that "servant names" (those composed of the element ʿebed, "servant, slave") are much more frequent at Edfû than in all other Old and Imperial Aramaic texts (especially Elephantine, Hermopolis, etc.). The paper then studies the incidence of such names in Aramaic, and suggests an explanation for the fact that they are otherwise so rare in this language. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2289 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Oriental Society, JAOS
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/602599 |
