Are Literary Languages Artificial?: The Case of the Aramaic of the Zohar

Few studies have focused on the Aramaic of the Zohar, and to this day, only one of these presents a completed grammatical analysis. Scholars have dealt at large, however, with the question of whether the Aramaic of the Zohar is artificial or not. I briefly review the history of the literature around...

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主要作者: Siegal, Elitzur A. Bar-Asher (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: [2020]
In: Aramaic studies
Year: 2020, 卷: 18, 發布: 1, Pages: 124-145
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 亞拉姆語 / Zohar
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Linguistic variation
B dialect
B literary language
B Aramaic
B Zohar
B artificial language
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總結:Few studies have focused on the Aramaic of the Zohar, and to this day, only one of these presents a completed grammatical analysis. Scholars have dealt at large, however, with the question of whether the Aramaic of the Zohar is artificial or not. I briefly review the history of the literature around this question, then propose my own criteria to examine whether a language of a given text is indeed artificial. Finally, I put this methodology into practice, as I investigate the nature of Zoharic Aramaic by examining specific linguistic phenomena in the relevant corpus.
ISSN:1745-5227
Contains:Enthalten in: Aramaic studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455227-bja10002