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 Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | |
|---|---|
| Type of project | Open access |
| Location | United States |
| Owner | Hebrew Union College |
| Established | 1980s |
| Website | cal |
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
editCAL 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon". The Digital Classicist. 2023-04-20. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ a b "4.2.2.1.3 Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon", Textual History of the Bible Online, Brill, doi:10.1163/2452-4107_thb_COM_225943
- ^ "Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon". Medieval Digital Resources – Medieval Academy of America. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Kaufman, Stephen A. (1987). The Comprehensive Aramaic lexicon: text entry and format manual. Baltimore.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Dialects and Texts". The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ Morgenstern, Matthew (ed.). "Mandaic texts". The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. Retrieved 2024-07-27.