Aramaic Language - History

History

The history of Aramaic is broken down into three broad periods:

  • Old Aramaic (1100 BCE–200 CE), including:
    • The Biblical Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible.
    • The Aramaic of Jesus.
  • Middle Aramaic (200–1200), including:
    • Literary Syriac.
    • The Aramaic of the Talmuds, Targumim, and Midrashim.
    • Mandaic.
  • Modern Aramaic (1200–present), including:
    • Various modern vernaculars.

This classification is based on that used by Klaus Beyer*.

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