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The thousands of surviving inscriptions in Middle Aramaic (e.g., in the Nabataean, Syriac and Palmyrene dialects) are an underused resource in the study of the Near East in the Roman period, especially in the study of religion and law. Particularly important was the emergence during this period of new peoples with their cultural roots in Arabia, such as the Nabataeans. This volume collects together, under the interrelated themes of religion and law, twenty-three articles by John Healey, with sections on "Petra and Nabataean Aramaic", "Edessa and Early Syriac" and "Aramaic and Society in the Roman Near East". Individual papers discuss the continuation of "Ancient Near Eastern" culture, the Aramaic legal tradition as well as the development of both written and spoken forms of Syriac and Nabatean. Cover 1 Series 3 Half Title 4 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Introduction 12 Acknowledgements 16 Abbreviations 17 PETRA AND NABATAEAN ARAMAIC 20 I Nabataean inscriptions: language and script 20 II Were the Nabataeans Arabs? 29 III Nabataean to Arabic: calligraphy and script development among the pre-Islamic Arabs 36 IV Sources for the study of Nabataean law 54 V The Nabataeans and Mada’in S

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Author

John F Healey

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000942095

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Humanities