Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Aramaic Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,1 (2020) 124-145
Keywords:
Zohar Language, style
;
Aramaic language History
;
Languages, Artificial
Abstract:
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.
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