Tarsee Li. The Verbal System of the Aramaic of Daniel (Volume 8)

Год издания: 2010.
Количество страниц: 199.
Язык: English.I first began to notice puzzling issues in the Aramaic of the book of Daniel as a graduate student in Hebrew Union College. However, I did not actively pursue this topic until after I finished my degree. In 2004, I had the privilege of attending an NEH summer seminar on Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity at Duke University. It was there that, with the guidance and encouragement of Paul Flesher, Eric Meyers, and Lucas Van Rompay, I first tested some of the ideas presented in this research. This was followed by a paper on the active
participle presented at the Aramaic section of the Society of Biblical Literature in Philadelphia 2005, and another paper on the non-active participles presented at the Language and Linguistics section of the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Vienna
2007.1 I wish to thank the questions and responses of those who were present, especially some informal remarks by Douglas Gropp after the presentation in Philadelphia. Portions of these earlier studies on the participles were revised and incorporated into this monograph. I also
want to thank Oakwood University for granting me a semester sabbatical in the spring of 2007 to work on this monograph. I am also grateful to several individuals who read portions of earlier
drafts of this study and gave valuable comments and suggestions. Lucas Van Rompay read portions of this study in its early stages and made helpful suggestions on Aramaic issues. Stephen Kaufman kindly read an early draft of the book and made some useful critical comments on methodology. Martin Haspelmath also read a draft of the book and
double-checked my references to and use of the literature in linguistics. Paul Flesher, the editor of this series, not only read earlier drafts but also provided feedback at many stages of this project. Also, an unnamed editorial reader made some useful suggestions that helped
improve the clarity of the presentation and its accessibility to readers. The views articulated here and any shortcomings are my own.