On the Role of Aramaic in Transmitting Syro-Mesopotamian Legal Institutions/ BARUCH A. LEVINE New York
BARUCH A. LEVINE New York On the Role of Aramaic in Transmitting Syro-Mesopotamian Legal Institutions Iam happy to be returning to one of my very first scholarly interests, the survival of ancient Near Eastern civi- lization, thanks to the agenda adopted by the initiators of the MELAMMU project. The many-faceted study by S. Alvesen, “The Legacy of Babylon and Nineveh in Aramaic Sources,” (1998) has illustrated the possibilities of searching for ancient themes in later sources. My Phd Disserta- tion (Brandeis, 1962) had dealt with a number of technical terms that had skipped, or had...
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