Abstract
The study of the Aramaic texts from Qumran did not begin in any real sense until the publication of the Genesis Apocryphon by Avigad and Yadin in 1956. The two Aramaic texts from Qumran with the most substantial remains are the Genesis Apocryphon and the Targum of Job, and we shall therefore begin our discussion of North American contributions to the study of the Aramaic texts from Qumran with those two documents. The languages of Qumran, both Hebrew and Aramaic have furnished valuable data over the last six decades for the still-open question of the social relationship among the languages spoken in Roman Palestine. The discovery of the Qumran materials, and especially the Bar Kokhba letters, led to a new consensus that in fact Hebrew was a spoken language until mishnaic times, and this view has been defended strongly especially by Israeli scholars. Keywords:Aramaic texts; Genesis Apocryphon; Hebrew; North American contribution; Qumran; Targum
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