Kevin van Bladel

Kevin van Bladel is a Yale professor and a philologist and historian of Near Eastern texts and societies from about 200 to 1200 CE. He studies the movement of learning among Arabic, AramaicAramaicA group of Northwest Semitic language varieties with a long history across the Near East.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, Greek and other language communities. He is cited in the Dhul Qarnayn study for a proposed source relationship between the SyriacSyriacA literary form of Aramaic, with an extensive Christian heritage and earlier non-Christian attestations.Glossary · Click to read the explanation Alexander Legend and al-Kahf. That study reports his position through Sebastian Brock’s account; it did not read van Bladel’s full paper. ^{[1] [2]}