It surprised me to find that M. Sokoloff's recent (well, 2003) "Dictionary of
Judean Aramaic" does not include the Qumran material (but does include
documentary texts from the Dead Sea region). His methodologically sound reasons
may be deduced from the preface of the book, so I'm certainly not blaming him,
but until he or the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon project comes up with one or
more dictionaries of the Aramaic dialects represented in the DSS, what's the
best solution to the practical problem of telling students where to look up
words?
-- K. Beyer's ATTM+E covers all the material, but while Beyer is a great
philologist, his reconstructions of manuscripts can be a bit idiosyncratic, I
think.
-- It might be convenient to use the Aramaic part of Abegg's concordance as a
glossary to start with, I guess.
-- My usual first stop-off is Sokoloff's dictionary of "Jewish Palestinian
Aramaic", anachronistic as this may be (it's primarily a dictionary of the
Yerushalmi and related midrashim and targumim).
-- I seem to remember that list owner Penner has produced quite copious
vocabulary lists, but hardly an actual dictionary, right?
any suggestions?
kol tuv
Soren
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