A representative sample of eighty inscriptions and documents in various local Aramaic dialects, dating from the first centuries BC, when the Near East was under Roman rule. Detailed commentaries on the texts, chapters on history and culture and on epigraphy and language, and English translations are also provided.

John F. Healey is Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Manchester.

• 1: Historical and Cultural Introduction


• 2: Epigraphic and Linguistic Introduction


• 3: Nabataean Inscriptions and Papyri


• 4: Jewish (Palestinian) Aramaic Inscriptions and Papyri


• 5: Palmyrene Inscriptions


• 6: Early Syriac (Edessan Aramaic) Inscriptions and Parchments


• 7: Hatran Inscriptions