Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
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| The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | |
|---|---|
| Type of project | Open access |
| Location | United States |
| Owner | Hebrew Union College |
| Established | 1980s |
| Website | cal |
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of Aramaic dialects.[1][2] CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words.[3]
The project was started in the 1980s[4] and is currently hosted by the Jewish Institute of Religion at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dialects
[edit | edit source]CAL includes the following Aramaic dialects and texts.[5][2]
- Old Aramaic
- Imperial Aramaic
- Biblical Aramaic
- Qumran Aramaic: fragments of Daniel, a "targum" of verses in Leviticus, and Qumran Targum Job
- Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targums Onqelos, Jonathan to the Prophets
- Palestinian Targumic Aramaic: Targum Neofiti, Fragment Targums, Cairo Genizah fragments
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
- Syriac
- Old Testament Peshitta (including Old Testament Apocrypha)
- New Testament Peshitta and Old Syriac Gospels
- Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
- Mandaic (curated by Matthew Morgenstern and Ohad Abudraham[6])
- Late Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch, all Targums to the Hagiographa
- Samaritan Aramaic: Targum J
See also
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