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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