This is an attempt to gather together Palestinian Aramaic texts of
various sorts and varying lengths from the last two centuries B. C. and
the first two centuries A. D. The texts are of diverse character: a few
of them are biblical; a number belong to the so-called intertestamental
literature of Palestinian Jews; some of them are letters, contracts, or
business documents of different sorts, reflecting various elements of
Palestinian life of that period. The last part of the collection of
texts presented here comes from ossuaries or tombstone inscriptions. The
collection made here provides the texts of these documents, a
translation of the text, a brief introduction, and a bibliography of
secondary literature on each of the texts. A glossary of the texts
complete the collection.