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Kevin van Bladel

Philologist and historian of the Near East and the transmission of learning across languages.

A Persian scene of Alexander building the wall, dated 1481. It is a later witness to the story, not the Syriac text studied by van Bladel or his portrait. Walters Art Museum, W.604.315A
A Persian scene of Alexander building the wall, dated 1481. It is a later witness to the story, not the Syriac text studied by van Bladel or his portrait. Walters Art Museum, W.604.315AThe Walters Art Museum, W.604.315A, CC0 · Public domainRelated reference

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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]

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  1. The specified page or portion was read, not a whole book. Yale official profile read in full; position, field and date range. Return to the text ↑
  2. The specified page or portion was read, not a whole book. Brock’s short GEDSH entry read; van Bladel’s full 2008 chapter not read. Return to the text ↑

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