A Cultural History of Aramaic - From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam

In A Cultural History of Aramaic, Holger Gzella comprehensively describes the history of Aramaic and its socio-cultural underpinnings as an ongoing linguistic evolution between its emergence and the spread of Arabic through the Near East (ca. 1000 BCE-700 CE).

About the author

Holger Gzella, Habilitation (2004) in Semitics, Heidelberg, is Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic at Leiden University. He was formerly trained at Oxford, Münster, and the Biblicum (Rome), has published widely on Semitic languages, and is a member of The Young Academy.

Product details

• Authors: Holger Gzella
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9789004285095
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28509-5
• No. of pages: 468
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 808 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity