Christa Müller-Kessler
Biographic Data
| ID | 703662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christa Müller-Kessler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christa |
| FAMILY NAME | Müller-Kessler |
| SIGNATURE | MÜLLER-KESSLER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9765-0776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Palimpsest with the Martyrdom of Proklos and Hilarios (BHG 2374) in Christian Palestinian Aramaic Translation from the Monastery Library of sSaint Catherine (Sin., CPA NF Frg. 7, fol. 5/6)
The palimpsest bifolium Sin., CPA NF Frg. 7, fols. 5/6 published here presents itself as a large fragment with a smaller detached one. The under-neath text could be identified with the first part of the martyrdom of Sts Proklos and Hilarios – ca 249-251 AD, during the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan Decius. The Christian Palestinian Aramaic text is written in an early uncial (5th to 7th cent.) and depends on a longer lost Greek model. The Passi…
Obsequies of My Lady Mary (I): Unpublished Early Syriac Palimpsest Fragments from the British Library (BL, Add 17.137, no. 2)
Once Again on the Unique Incantation Bowl BM 135563
More on puzzling words and spellings in Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts
The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls and their related texts opens a new approach to the lexicographical study of the Aramaic dialects in Babylonia of late antiquity. Some of these texts were copies of "Vorlagen" that the scribes no longer understood. Nevertheless, they are more reliable text sources than one supposes. Errors, garbled spellings, miscomprehensions and misreadings are always feasible, and are typical phenomena of copied texts. I…
An Inscribed Silver Amulet from Samaria
The silver inscribed amulet (PEF 2049) in the collections of the Palestine Exploration Fund was found in a tomb of the Graeco-Roman period during the excavations of the British expedition to Samaria directed by J. W. Crowfoot from 1931–35. The silver was tightly rolled up inside a cylindrical copper case and was recognized when the copper had fallen away. Comparative study of the associated finds, notably glass and lamps, suggests a date in the 4…
Aramaic k, lyk and Iraqi Arabic aku, maku: The Mesopotamian Particles of Existence
A linguistic phenomenon which has been evident in the central and southern Mesopotamian area (the former Babylonia), including neighboring Khuzistan, since the early Christian centuries is the deictic indicator k here that functions predominantly as the adverb k' or kh, and is a Common Aramaic particle.1 The earliest attestation of kh in Aramaic occurs in the Sfire inscriptions in ancient northern Syria outside the boundaries of Mesopotamia,2 and…
Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek Documentary Texts from Nahal Hever and Other Sites, with an Appendix Containing Alleged Qumran Texts (The Seiyal Collection II)
This volume in the series contains first and second century documents in Aramaic and Greek said to come from Nahal Se'elim and now generally held to be from Nahal Hever (the provenance of the Babatha Archive and the Bar Kokhba documents). The transitional stage of the Aramaic language is documented here for the first time. The Greek language and script closely resembles that of the Greek papyri from Egypt. The legal documents in the archive of Sa…
A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Vol. III: The Forty Martyrs of the Sinai Desert, Eulogios, the Stone-Cutter, and Anastasia
A Unique Talmudic Aramaic Incantation Bowl
Generally, incantation bowls are written in a formal standardized literary Eastern Aramaic or, less frequently, in a koine of Southern Babylonian Aramaic. The present article treats a magic bowl that is written in an idiom that is related to Talmudic Aramaic. Although the term Talmudic Aramaic has been used indiscriminately in several studies to describe the language of incantation bowls, the only attested evidence for this dialect in a bowl writ…
Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Its Significance to the Western Aramaic Dialect Group
This review article highlights the importance of the early manuscripts of Christian Palestinian Aramaic by examining several manuscripts belonging to Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus which, because of their early date and their internal dialectal characteristics, are significant for a better understanding of Western Aramaic
Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten
Article Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten was published on January 1, 1999 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 89, issue 1)
Puzzling Words and Spellings in Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls
Through work on the large collection of Mandaic lead rolls in the British Museum and collations of incantation bowls in various museums and libraries, it appears that Mandaic gnostic incantation formulas were often translated into Babylonian Aramaic and Syriac, but not the reverse. In Late Antiquity, MandaicVorlagenseem to have dominated the field of magic in Mesopotamia. Although, only a scanty amount of pre-Islamic Mandaic incantation material …
A Mandaic Gold Amulet in the British Museum
Until recently, Mandaic incantations were known only from lead rolls, earthenware bowls, or paper. The existence of an incantation incised on a gold sheet is a novelty. The amulet itself is a tiny sheet inscribed in a varying Mandaic script on both sides with an incantation against infertility, and against problems during pregnancy and birth, a topic of relevance hardly ever attested in Aramaic incantation texts of Late Antiquity. Of further inte…
The Story of Bguzan-Lilit, Daughter of Zanay-Lilit
A large Mandaic magic bowl from the Yale Babylonian Collection is re-edited here, since the discovery of a parallel Mandaic formula on a lead amulet in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum sheds new light on many passages. The present article offers new readings and interpretations of the inscription with its intriguing story of a demoness of infertility, one Bguzan-Lilit, who not only endangers the life of the chil…
An unidentified Christian-Palestinian-Aramaic fragment in the Taylor-Schechter Collection: Isaiah 36: 16-37:4
Among the Taylor-Schechter Collection in the University Library Cambridge there are still Christian-Palestinian-Aramaic (CPA) fragments which have yet to be identified. One such fragment, T-S 12.742, was published for the first time in 1900 by A. Lewis and M. Gibson, though scarcely any of the text had been read.2 Like all the other CPA fragments of earlier date, T-S 12.742 is a vellum palimpsest, and has a small part of another page attached to …
A Unique Talmudic Aramaic Incantation Bowl
Generally, incantation bowls are written in a formal standardized literary Eastern Aramaic or, less frequently, in a koine of Southern Babylonian Aramaic. The present article treats a magic bowl that is written in an idiom that is related to Talmudic Aramaic. Although the term Talmudic Aramaic has been used indiscriminately in several studies to describe the language of incantation bowls, the only attested evidence for this dialect in a bowl writ…
More on puzzling words and spellings in Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts
The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls and their related texts opens a new approach to the lexicographical study of the Aramaic dialects in Babylonia of late antiquity. Some of these texts were copies of "Vorlagen" that the scribes no longer understood. Nevertheless, they are more reliable text sources than one supposes. Errors, garbled spellings, miscomprehensions and misreadings are always feasible, and are typical phenomena of copied texts. I…
Aramaic k, lyk and Iraqi Arabic aku, maku: The Mesopotamian Particles of Existence
A linguistic phenomenon which has been evident in the central and southern Mesopotamian area (the former Babylonia), including neighboring Khuzistan, since the early Christian centuries is the deictic indicator k here that functions predominantly as the adverb k' or kh, and is a Common Aramaic particle.1 The earliest attestation of kh in Aramaic occurs in the Sfire inscriptions in ancient northern Syria outside the boundaries of Mesopotamia,2 and…
The Story of Bguzan-Lilit, Daughter of Zanay-Lilit
A large Mandaic magic bowl from the Yale Babylonian Collection is re-edited here, since the discovery of a parallel Mandaic formula on a lead amulet in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum sheds new light on many passages. The present article offers new readings and interpretations of the inscription with its intriguing story of a demoness of infertility, one Bguzan-Lilit, who not only endangers the life of the chil…
Puzzling Words and Spellings in Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls
Through work on the large collection of Mandaic lead rolls in the British Museum and collations of incantation bowls in various museums and libraries, it appears that Mandaic gnostic incantation formulas were often translated into Babylonian Aramaic and Syriac, but not the reverse. In Late Antiquity, MandaicVorlagenseem to have dominated the field of magic in Mesopotamia. Although, only a scanty amount of pre-Islamic Mandaic incantation material …
Once Again on the Unique Incantation Bowl BM 135563
An unidentified Christian-Palestinian-Aramaic fragment in the Taylor-Schechter Collection: Isaiah 36: 16-37:4
Among the Taylor-Schechter Collection in the University Library Cambridge there are still Christian-Palestinian-Aramaic (CPA) fragments which have yet to be identified. One such fragment, T-S 12.742, was published for the first time in 1900 by A. Lewis and M. Gibson, though scarcely any of the text had been read.2 Like all the other CPA fragments of earlier date, T-S 12.742 is a vellum palimpsest, and has a small part of another page attached to …
The Story of Bguzan-Lilit, Daughter of Zanay-Lilit
A large Mandaic magic bowl from the Yale Babylonian Collection is re-edited here, since the discovery of a parallel Mandaic formula on a lead amulet in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum sheds new light on many passages. The present article offers new readings and interpretations of the inscription with its intriguing story of a demoness of infertility, one Bguzan-Lilit, who not only endangers the life of the chil…
A Mandaic Gold Amulet in the British Museum
Until recently, Mandaic incantations were known only from lead rolls, earthenware bowls, or paper. The existence of an incantation incised on a gold sheet is a novelty. The amulet itself is a tiny sheet inscribed in a varying Mandaic script on both sides with an incantation against infertility, and against problems during pregnancy and birth, a topic of relevance hardly ever attested in Aramaic incantation texts of Late Antiquity. Of further inte…
Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Its Significance to the Western Aramaic Dialect Group
This review article highlights the importance of the early manuscripts of Christian Palestinian Aramaic by examining several manuscripts belonging to Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus which, because of their early date and their internal dialectal characteristics, are significant for a better understanding of Western Aramaic
Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten
Article Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten was published on January 1, 1999 in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (volume 89, issue 1)
Puzzling Words and Spellings in Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls
Through work on the large collection of Mandaic lead rolls in the British Museum and collations of incantation bowls in various museums and libraries, it appears that Mandaic gnostic incantation formulas were often translated into Babylonian Aramaic and Syriac, but not the reverse. In Late Antiquity, MandaicVorlagenseem to have dominated the field of magic in Mesopotamia. Although, only a scanty amount of pre-Islamic Mandaic incantation material …
A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Vol. III: The Forty Martyrs of the Sinai Desert, Eulogios, the Stone-Cutter, and Anastasia
A Unique Talmudic Aramaic Incantation Bowl
Generally, incantation bowls are written in a formal standardized literary Eastern Aramaic or, less frequently, in a koine of Southern Babylonian Aramaic. The present article treats a magic bowl that is written in an idiom that is related to Talmudic Aramaic. Although the term Talmudic Aramaic has been used indiscriminately in several studies to describe the language of incantation bowls, the only attested evidence for this dialect in a bowl writ…
Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek Documentary Texts from Nahal Hever and Other Sites, with an Appendix Containing Alleged Qumran Texts (The Seiyal Collection II)
This volume in the series contains first and second century documents in Aramaic and Greek said to come from Nahal Se'elim and now generally held to be from Nahal Hever (the provenance of the Babatha Archive and the Bar Kokhba documents). The transitional stage of the Aramaic language is documented here for the first time. The Greek language and script closely resembles that of the Greek papyri from Egypt. The legal documents in the archive of Sa…
Aramaic k, lyk and Iraqi Arabic aku, maku: The Mesopotamian Particles of Existence
A linguistic phenomenon which has been evident in the central and southern Mesopotamian area (the former Babylonia), including neighboring Khuzistan, since the early Christian centuries is the deictic indicator k here that functions predominantly as the adverb k' or kh, and is a Common Aramaic particle.1 The earliest attestation of kh in Aramaic occurs in the Sfire inscriptions in ancient northern Syria outside the boundaries of Mesopotamia,2 and…
An Inscribed Silver Amulet from Samaria
The silver inscribed amulet (PEF 2049) in the collections of the Palestine Exploration Fund was found in a tomb of the Graeco-Roman period during the excavations of the British expedition to Samaria directed by J. W. Crowfoot from 1931–35. The silver was tightly rolled up inside a cylindrical copper case and was recognized when the copper had fallen away. Comparative study of the associated finds, notably glass and lamps, suggests a date in the 4…
Once Again on the Unique Incantation Bowl BM 135563
More on puzzling words and spellings in Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts
The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls and their related texts opens a new approach to the lexicographical study of the Aramaic dialects in Babylonia of late antiquity. Some of these texts were copies of "Vorlagen" that the scribes no longer understood. Nevertheless, they are more reliable text sources than one supposes. Errors, garbled spellings, miscomprehensions and misreadings are always feasible, and are typical phenomena of copied texts. I…
Obsequies of My Lady Mary (I): Unpublished Early Syriac Palimpsest Fragments from the British Library (BL, Add 17.137, no. 2)
A Palimpsest with the Martyrdom of Proklos and Hilarios (BHG 2374) in Christian Palestinian Aramaic Translation from the Monastery Library of sSaint Catherine (Sin., CPA NF Frg. 7, fol. 5/6)
The palimpsest bifolium Sin., CPA NF Frg. 7, fols. 5/6 published here presents itself as a large fragment with a smaller detached one. The under-neath text could be identified with the first part of the martyrdom of Sts Proklos and Hilarios – ca 249-251 AD, during the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan Decius. The Christian Palestinian Aramaic text is written in an early uncial (5th to 7th cent.) and depends on a longer lost Greek model. The Passi…
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