Aramaic language

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History

Here follows a comprehensive history of Aramaic. The history is broken down into three broad periods:

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• Old Aramaic (1100 BCE–200 CE), including:
• The Biblical Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible.
• The Aramaic of Jesus.
• The Aramaic of the Targums.
• Middle Aramaic (200–1200), including:
• Literary Syriac.
• The Aramaic of the Talmuds and Midrashim.
• Modern Aramaic (1200–present), including:
• Various modern vernaculars.

This classification is based on that used by Klaus Beyer*.

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