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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

Middle Aramaic language once used by Jewish writers in Lower Mesopotamia

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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic or Talmudic Aramaic was the form of Middle Aramaic employed by writers in Lower Mesopotamia between the fourth and eleventh centuries. It is most commonly identified with the language of the Babylonian Talmud, the Targum Onqelos, and of post-Talmudic (Gaonic) literature, which are the most important cultural products of Babylonian Jews. The most important epigraphic sources for the dialect are the hundreds of inscriptions on incantation bowls.

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