Sources

Works cited in this folder. General works on Aramaic, the dictionaries (Jastrow, BDB, Levy) and the code scheme: Sources. Checked 2026-10-17; grammar paths added 2026-10-18.

1. Texts on disk

2. Dictionaries

• Jastrow 1903 — public domain; local JSONL; cites the Yerushalmi ("Y.") and the Palestinian targums ("Targ. Y.", "Targ. Y. II") throughout.
• Levy 1876–1889 — public domain; scans.
• Sokoloff, M. 2002b. A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period. 2nd ed. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins (3rd ed. 2017). In copyright; wanted.
• Krauss, S. 1898–1899. Griechische und lateinische Lehnwörter im Talmud, Midrasch und Targum. 2 vols. Berlin. Public domain. archive.org griechischeundla01krau (both volumes in one scan); on disk: krauss-lehnwoerter-1898-1899. Vol. II (the dictionary) starts at PDF page 401; vol. II page = PDF page − 412. The loanword table of The lexicon of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic §3 was checked against it on 2026-10-18.
• Sperber, D. 1984. A Dictionary of Greek and Latin Legal Terms in Rabbinic Literature. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. In copyright.
• CAL, cal.huc.edu — has JPA texts lemmatised; consult only.

3. Grammars and studies

Public domain:

• Dalman, G. 1905. Grammatik des jüdisch-palästinischen Aramäisch. 2nd ed. Leipzig: Hinrichs. (Dalman d. 1941.) archive.org grammatikdesj00dalmuoft; on disk: dalman-jpa-grammatik-1905 (PDF + OCR). Printed page = PDF page − 22. Galilean forms are printed unpointed; the comparative tables of the Anhang (pp. 395–411) set them beside Onkelos.
• Frankel, Z. 1870. Mevo ha-Yerushalmi (Introduction to the Jerusalem Talmud, Hebrew). Breslau. Public domain.
• Stevenson, W. B. 1924. Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic. Oxford: Clarendon. Public domain in the EU and the USA (Stevenson d. 1954; published 1924), as recorded in grammars.tsv; archive.org grammarofpalesti0000wbst; on disk: stevenson-palestinian-aramaic-1924. Printed page = PDF page − 4. It sets PTM (Palestinian Talmud and Midrash) beside OJ (Onkelos and Jonathan) and Biblical Aramaic, with vocalised PTM forms. Both grammars were read from the page images (the OCR has no Hebrew script); this folder was checked against them on 2026-10-18. A second pass the same day read Dalman's phonology (§§ 10–15, pp. 56–105), adverbs and prepositions (§§ 43–47 and Anhang II–III, pp. 397–399), possessives (§18.4) and weak-first-root verbs (§§ 66–69, 73–74, pp. 291–311, 352–357).

In copyright (cited from the literature):

• Kutscher, E. Y. 1976. Studies in Galilean Aramaic. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University.
• Fassberg, S. E. 1991. A Grammar of the Palestinian Targum Fragments from the Cairo Genizah. Harvard Semitic Studies 38. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
• Golomb, D. M. 1985. A Grammar of Targum Neofiti. Harvard Semitic Monographs 34. Chico: Scholars Press.
• Cook, E. M. 1986. Rewriting the Bible: The Text and Language of the Pseudo-Jonathan Targum. PhD diss., UCLA.
• Díez Macho, A. 1968–1979. Neophyti 1. 6 vols. Madrid–Barcelona: CSIC. (The edition of Neofiti.)
• Klein, M. L. 1980. The Fragment-Targums of the Pentateuch According to Their Extant Sources. Rome: Biblical Institute Press; 1986. Genizah Manuscripts of Palestinian Targum to the Pentateuch. Cincinnati: HUC Press.
• Naveh, J. 1978. On Stone and Mosaic: The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.
• Sussmann, Y. 1974. "A Halakhic Inscription from the Beth-Shean Valley" (Hebrew). Tarbiz 43: 88–158.
• Sokoloff, M. and J. Yahalom. 1999. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Israel Academy.
• Odeberg, H. 1939. The Aramaic Portions of Bereshit Rabba. Lund: Gleerup. (Odeberg d. 1973.)

Rabbinic sources cited: y. Bava Metzia 2:5 (8c); y. Berakhot 2:8 (5c); y. Maaser Sheni 4:6; y. Kilayim 9:3; y. Sanhedrin 11:5; y. Yevamot 12:2; b. Eruvin 53b.

4. Wanted

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