Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
{{Short description|Online dictionary of Aramaic}}
{{Infobox project
| name = The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
| type = Open access
| location = United States
| owner = Hebrew Union College
| founder =
| established = 1980s
| website = {{URL|https://cal.huc.edu/}}
}}
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of Aramaic dialects.{{cite web | title=Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | website=The Digital Classicist | date=2023-04-20 | url=https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Comprehensive_Aramaic_Lexicon | access-date=2024-07-28}}{{citation | title=4.2.2.1.3 Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | doi=10.1163/2452-4107_thb_COM_225943 | work=Textual History of the Bible Online | url=https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/THBO/COM-225943.xml | publisher=Brill| url-access=subscription }} CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words.{{cite web | title=Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | website=Medieval Digital Resources – Medieval Academy of America | url=https://mdr-maa.org/resource/comprehensive-aramaic-lexicon/ | access-date=2024-07-28}}
The project was started in the 1980s{{cite book|title=The Comprehensive Aramaic lexicon: text entry and format manual|url=https://archive.org/details/comprehensiveara0000kauf|date=1987|location=Baltimore|last=Kaufman|first=Stephen A.}} 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.{{cite web | title=Dialects and Texts | website=The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | url=https://cal.huc.edu/newtextmenu.html | access-date=2024-07-28}}
- 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{{cite web | editor-last=Morgenstern | editor-first=Matthew | website=The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | url=https://cal.huc.edu/show_Mandaic.php?R1=74 | title=Mandaic texts | access-date=2024-07-27}})
- Late Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch, all Targums to the Hagiographa
- Samaritan Aramaic: Targum J
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://cal.huc.edu/}}
- [https://cal.huc.edu/newtextmenu.html Dialects and texts]
- [https://cal.huc.edu/AvailSyr.html Syriac texts]
- [https://cal.huc.edu/show_Mandaic.php?R1=74 Mandaic text]
- [https://cal.huc.edu/searching/fullbrowser.html Lexicon browser]
- [https://cal.huc.edu/searching/englishnew.html Gloss search]
Category:Linguistics databases
Category:Aramaic dictionaries and grammars
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