O.T and N.T. Aramaic

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Mandaic?

"b'shemayhon d'hayia, rabia, marawarab " (in the name of ... etc....)

It appears just at glancing to be a blessing upon the reader of our judgements and to the one who abides by these words, maybe a magic formula, etc....I could be way off, long work day ... going to sleep, been burning the candle at both ends at work. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s -->

(I'm not even going to attempt to translate anything from that oddball dialect, if indeed it's mandaic - not bothered enough to learn in that extreme isolate).


+Shamasha

You identified the language right away! :-) Indeed it is Classical Mandaic, and if you can get past the extremely plene and unorthodox orthography, it's a heck of a lot like Jewish Babylonian Aramaic with some differences of vocabulary and vowels. In their writings there is also a lot of theological jargon that isn't shared with other Aramaic dialects, as Mandaic theology is very different from Judeo-Christianity.

That line reads, "In the name of the Great Life, the sublime light is exalted! To whom shall I call, so that he might answer to me, and to whom shall I give this speech?"

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