Aramaic

Given the many excellent editions of Samaritan writings (e.g. The Pentateuch) in recent years, the need was felt for a comprehensive dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic. Abraham Tal s "Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic," the first dictionary of its kind, contains the vocabulary of the Aramaic dialect in which the Samaritans composed their texts, from the beginning of their literature in the fourth century C.E. when Aramaic was the community s vernacular, until the end of the use of Aramaic in the eleventh century, when it was replaced by Arabic.