[Heb-NACO] ALA/LC romanization(?) for Aramic as used in Babylonian Talmud, Talmud Yerushalmi, midrashitc texts

Joan Biella jbiella2632 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 16:17:40 EST 2022


In my time at LC we never tackled this, mostly because we almost never
needed it.  Personally, I always turned to Jastrow first, but this practice
was not codified.

Joan Biella

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:17 AM Heidi G Lerner via Heb-naco <
heb-naco at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear safranim, Is it possible that in our years of developing romanization
> schemata for several Jewish languages written in Hebrew script we have not
> codified any guidelines for Aramaic used in talmudic and
> midrashic/aggadic/cabalistic texts?
> Dear safranim,
>
> Is it possible that in our years of developing romanization schemata for
> several Jewish languages written in Hebrew script we have not codified any
> guidelines for Aramaic used in talmudic and midrashic/aggadic/cabalistic
> texts?
>
> Up until now my practice has been to follow the ALA/LC table for Hebrew.
> If I don't find a particular Aramaic word in  Even-Shoshan or Alkalay, i
> turn to Jastrow,  Sefaria, Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (covers all
> dialects).
>
> What have the rest of you been doing? Should a preferred  method be
> codified?
>
> I look forward to learning your practices have been.
>
> Best, Heidi
>
>
>
> Heidi G. Lerner
>
> Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Emerita, Stanford University
> Libraries
>
>
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