Aramaeology

alternative Arameology

1. uncountableThe study of Aramaic.

   The field of Aramaeology is an ever growing branch of general linguistics, and that is why it offers so much excitement to everyone who is involved in it.

   1992, Zdravko Stefanovic, “Preface”, in The Aramaic of Daniel in the Light of Old Aramaic, page 7

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   As far as intensity of activity is concerned, that in Jewish and Western Aramaic is matched, if not surpassed, by the sixth and last field of Aramaeology which I have singled out for mention: the study of the modern spoken dialects.

   1978, Franz Rosenthal, “Aramaic Studies During the Past Thirty Years”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 37, number 2, →DOI, →JSTOR

   Finally, I should like to record my special gratitude to those to whom it was not granted to see the conclusion of the work: the late Professor E. R. Goodenough, my mentor in Hellenistic Judaism and the history of religion; the late Professor E. Y. Kutscher, my teacher in Aramaeology; [...]

   1985, Michael H. Silverman, Religious Values in the Jewish Proper Names at Elephantine, page viii

   Synonyms: Aramaistics