Lishan Didan, Targum Didan : : Translation Language in a Neo-Aramaic Targum Tradition / / Margo Rees.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rees, Margo,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Neo-Aramaic Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; General Introduction --; I. Morphology --; II. Translation Technique --; III. Comparative analyses --; Concluding remarks --; Bibliography --; Appendix: Manuscript Barzani—Sample Pages --; Glossary of Neo-Aramaic from msB
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463211622; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463211622
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Margo Rees.

This study examines the language and translation technique used in a modern “targum” of the Bible. The targum – referred to as “Manuscript Barzani” – is a written preservation of a tradition of Jewish Neo-Aramaic Bible translation, originally transmitted in oral form among the religious leaders of a community in Iraqi Kurdistan. It represents a literary form of the Neo-Aramaic spoken by the Jews of the Rewanduz/Arbel region. Within their community, the targum was used in the schools to teach the language and text of the Hebrew Bible to the young men.