🔴 📖 **Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both?**
_”The study investigates the historical roles of Aramaic as both a lingua franca and a koine, examining its development and usage across various periods. It identifies three main contexts: as the administrative and diplomatic language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, as the religious and scholarly language of Jewish communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and as the liturgical and literary language of Syriac Christianity.”
Healey, J. (2025) 'Aramaic: lingua franca, koine, or both?,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 771–796. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.28.
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#Syriac is referenced extensively in the chapter.
@bibliolater @bookstodon I'm curious to see if this study looks at how Syriac fit into everything. Especially with how prevalent it was in early Arab Islamic empires, not to mention all the Syriac documentary evidence in Central and East Asia.