The Three Little Pigs’ proof arrived yesterday and I’ve sent out all of the final changes. Fairly soon it will be available for purchase on Amazon.com and other major bookseller outlets!
In the meantime, Pre-Orders are available over on Aramaic Designs for the paperback, audiobook, and a DRM free digital copy (PDF) which you can check out by clicking here and if you use the coupon code LITTLEPIGS you can get 10% off each of them. đ
If anyone would like a review copy for their blog or another publication, please email me at AramaicDesigns@gmail.com with the details.
Efforts to legally differentiate between Christian and Muslim Arabs bore fruit on Tuesday as Interior Minister Gideon Saar ordered that the population registry recognize a separate Aramean identity.
Christians who identify with the ancient people can decide to register as Arameans instead of Arabs.
I had mentioned this a while back, but now’s time for a progress report. đ
The Three Little Pigs in Galilean Aramaic (Talte Ḥaziraya ZÉËoraya) will be available on Aramaic Designs and all major booksellers’ websites in paperback soon. I haven’t decided whether or not I’m going to release it as an e-book yet as Aramaic text is always a tricky thing for mobi and epub formats. I may release it as a PDF e-book, and an iBooks edition, though as it will preserve all the formatting.
I’m presently in the midst of re-arranging some things on the AramaicNT.org website. If you notice any links or sections disappearing, simply check the rest of the menus as they may simply have moved. đ
A letter, started by Eleanor Coghill and Alessandro Mengozzi has been published in severalplaces and signed by about 50 Neo-Aramaic scholars. Even as someone who works predominantly in classical Aramaic dialects, I would put my own signature to this statement.
A genocide was perpetrated 99 years ago upon the Christians of the Middle East, including the Aramaic-speaking Assyrians, Chaldeans and Aramaeans. Now we see history repeating itself.
Christian towns and villages, such as Qaraqosh, Telkepe and Alqosh, which had largely escaped the violence of recent decades, are now emptied of their people. These towns, with ancient monasteries, are of huge historical and cultural significance. In this area, furthermore, Aramaic has been spoken for thousands of years.
Wave upon wave of refugees, amounting to hundreds of thousands of people, are now crowded into the small Kurdish region, itself gravely threatened by the Islamic State forces. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Yazidis have fled via the mountains without shelter. Urgent aid is needed, but in the longer term the refugees cannot stay in Erbil.
As scholars engaged in the study of their language and cultural heritage, we call upon Britain, the governments of the European Union, the United States, and the international community to do all in their power to allow the refugees back to their homes in the plain of Mosul and to institute an internationally protected safe haven in northern Iraq of the kind that, 20 years ago, protected the Kurds from genocide. This enabled the region up to now to enjoy a stability and prosperity that we would wish for all Iraqis.
Dr Eleanor Coghill
University of Konstanz Dr Alessandro Mengozzi
University of Turin Professor Geoffrey Khan
University of Cambridge Profesor Dr Werner Arnold
University of Heidelberg University Professor Dr Shabo Talay
Free University of Berlin Professor Yona Sabar
University of California, Los Angeles Professor Dr Heleen Murre-van den Berg
Leiden University of Leiden Professor Fabrizio Pennacchietti
University of Turin Professor Dr Otto Jastrow
Tallinn University Professor Steven Fassberg
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Hezy Mutzafi
Tel Aviv University Dr Samuel Ethan Fox
University of Chicago Dr Sergey Loesov
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow Dr Pablo Kirtchuk
Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris Dr Maciej Tomal
Jagiellonian University, Krakow Dr George Anton Kiraz
Rutgers University, New Jersey Nineb Lamassu
University of Cambridge Zeki Bilgic
University of Konstanz Georges Toro
University of Konstanz Dr Charles G. Häberl
Rutgers University, New Jersey Dr Roberta Borghero
University of Cambridge Dr Michael Waltisberg
University of Marburg Dr Alinda Damsma
Leo Baeck College, London Dr Naâama Pat-El
University of Texas at Austin Dr Johanna Rubba
Cal Poly State University, California Rev Kristine Jensen
Aramaic Bible Translation, Peoria, Arizona Dr Lidia Napiorkowska
University of Cambridge Kathrin GĂśransson
University of Cambridge Ariel Gutman
University of Konstanz Michael Wingert
University of California, Los Angeles Timothy Hogue
University of California, Los Angeles Kristine Mole
University of Cambridge Dr Jasmin Sinha
Aubange, Belgium Fabio Gasparini
University of Tutin Demsin Lachin
Aramaic Bible Translation, Turlock, California Dr Margaretha Folmer
Leiden University Professor Dr Estiphan Panoussi
University of Gothenburg Professor Emeritus Olga Kapeliuk
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dr Jean Sibille
University of Toulouse Joseph Alichoran
Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris Professor Eran Cohen
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robin Bet Shmuel
Oriental Cultural Centre, Duhok, Iraq Dr Alexey Lyavdansky
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow Martin Luther Chan
University of California, Los Angeles Dr M. David Hanna
Los Angeles Dr Laura Kalin
University of Connecticut Illan Gonen
University of Cambridge Dr Francesco Zanella
University of Bonn D. Robert Paulissian
Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies
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Steve Caruso, MLIS
Aramaic Designs / The Aramaic New Testament
