10-18-2014, 03:27 AM
ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:I was wondering if Judean was an Eastern dialect, because I'd read Janet Magiera describe it as such.
Aye, Judean ("Jewish Babylonian Aramaic") was a very Eastern dialect and closer to Syriac grammatically and vocabulary-wise. It was what survived as the dialect of legal discourse in Jewish tradition, and is what Talmud Bavli and the official Targums are written in.
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Aye that's what the Judeans believed (and there are a number of anecdotes in Talmud Bavli that attest to this). That attitude was what ultimately corrupted the Galilean corpus due to lots of little "corrections" at the hand of Eastern Aramaic speaking scribes over a thousand years.
The Galileans, on the other hand, weren't language snobs and didn't squabble over things such as pronunciation in their theological discourses. In fact, they were bold enough to do things that shocked the Judean Pharisees, such as speak God's Name (Talmud Yerushalemi, Berakhoth, Chapter 3) without worry "for the study of the Torah is not susceptible to uncleanliness."