Studia aramaica : new sources and new approaches : papers delivered at the London conference of the Institute of Jewish Studies University College London 26th-28th June 1991 ed. by M.J. Geller, J.C. Greenfield and M.P. Weitzman ; with the assistance of V.T. Mathias.

Papers predominantly in English; some in French or German.

Includes bibliographical references.

Aramaic and the Jews / Jonas C. Greenfield -- A Re-examination of the Berlin Aramaic dockets / Eleonora Cussini -- Greek and Aramaic in Palmyrene inscriptions / Han J. W. Drijvers -- Lamedh-Yodh verbs in Palestinian Targumic Aramaic / S. Fassberg -- Pagan incantations in Aramaic magic bowls / Tapani Harviainen -- Combat and conflict in incantation bowls: studies on two Aramaic specimens from Nippur / Erica C.D. Hunter -- Les Inscriptions araméennes de Cheikh-Fadl (Égypt) / André Lemaire -- New light on the ancient town of Taimā ̓/ Alasdair Livingstone -- Cognates can be deceptive: some Aramaic distinctives / Alan Millard -- Neue Materialien zum Christlich-Palästinisch-Aramäischen Lexikon I / Christa Müller-Kessler -- Aramaic and Syriac dispute-poems and their connections / Robert Murray, SJ -- The Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic--progress and prospects / Michael Sokoloff -- Papyrus Amherst 63: a new source for the language, literature, religion and history of the Aramaeans / R.C. Steiner -- Some observations on word formation in Samaritan Aramaic: the qiṭṭūl pattern / Abraham Tal -- Lexical clues to the composition of the Old Testament Peshitta / M.P. Weitzman.