| The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | |
|---|---|
| Type of project | Open access |
| Location | United States |
| Owner | Hebrew Union College |
| Established | 1980s |
| Website | cal |
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of Aramaic dialects. CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words.
The project was started in the 1980s and is currently hosted by the Jewish Institute of Religion at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dialects
CAL includes the following Aramaic dialects and texts.
- 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)
- Late Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch, all Targums to the Hagiographa
- Samaritan Aramaic: Targum J
See also
References
- "Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon". The Digital Classicist. 2023-04-20. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "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.