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Aramaean

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Aramaean

A member of any people belonging to a confederacy of tribes that migrated from the Arabian Peninsula to the Fertile Crescent c. 1500–1200 BC. Among them were the biblical matriarchs Leah and Rachel, wives of Jacob. The Aramaic language and culture spread through international trade. They reached a cultural peak during the 9th–8th centuries BC. By 500 BC, Aramaic had become the universal language of commerce, culture, and government throughout the Fertile Crescent and remained so through the time of Jesus and into the 7th century in some areas.
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God then orders him to take his family and move to Canaan, presumably to eliminate the influence Aramaean paganism is having on them.
Ivri: naming ourselves by Engelmayer, Shammai / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
Its Temple of Jupiter, built on the site of the old temple of the Aramaean god Hadad, was one of the largest in the whole of the East and sections that still exist today are its oldest architectural remains.
The Damascus massacre by Degeorge, Gerard / The Architectural Review
At the same time many Persians and persianized Aramaeans received positions as 'secretaries' or civil servants.
Religious inquisition as social policy: the persecution of the ... by Ibrahim, Mahmood / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
 
 
 
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