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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/7110| Title: | Why the Aramaic Script Was Called ‘Assyrian’ in Hebrew, Greek, and Demotic |
| Authors: | Steiner, Richard |
| Keywords: | Aramaic script Assyrian |
| Issue Date: | 1993 |
| Publisher: | Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico |
| Citation: | Steiner, Richard C. “Why the Aramaic Script Was Called ‘Assyrian’ in Hebrew, Greek, and Demotic.” Orientalia NOVA Series, 62 no.2, (1993): 80-82. |
| Series/Report no.: | Orientalia;NOVA Series 62 (2) |
| Abstract: | In other words, Hitzig was basically right, except that he was basically unaware that it was the Egyptians who first applied the name of Assyria to Aram, and the term "Assyrian script" to the Aramaic script. The corresponding terms in Greek and Hebrew are derived from the Demotic, directly in the case of Greek, indirectly in the case of Hebrew . None of these terms has anything to do with the history of the Aramaic script. (from Conclusion). |
| Description: | Scholarly article |
| URI: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43076090 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/7110 |
| ISSN: | 00305367 |
| Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications |
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