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The passive participle, used as an auxiliary, is often thought to introduce an event in the remote or eschatological future. But in Targum Neofiti, it is not the remoteness of a future event that explains the use of, but the modality of obligation: the sure conviction on the part of the speaker that the event introduced by will occur. In most cases, the person obliged to execute the event is God, the source of the theological nuance that lends to the context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes that the same functional categories which determine the inflection of the Biblical Hebrew finite verb also determine the feature specification of the Biblical Hebrew infinitive. This proposal depends both on demonstrating that the infinitive is a verb, rather than a noun (or a verbal noun), as traditionally assumed, and on showing that the functional categories that embed the infinitive are clausal rather than nominal. The article starts by examining the traditional distinction between the Infinitive Absolute and Infinitive Construct , and makes an argument for a single infinitive, with two allomorphs. The former is a verb marked as [+Mood], while the latter is marked as [–Mood], and both are also specified for two other clausal functional categories: T and Asp/Mod. These two latter categories determine a 4-way classification of finite/infinitival verbs: [+T+Asp/Mod], [+T–Asp/Mod], [–T+Asp/Mod], [–T–Asp/Mod]. This classification determines a concomitant 4-way alternation of attachment options of subject and/or object clitics to the verb: [+subj.cl.+Obj.cl.], [+subj.cl.–Obj.cl.], [–subj.cl.+Obj.cl.], [–subj.cl.–Obj.cl.], and moreover accounts for the distribution of the different verb forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A bibliography on the subject of languages related to the Aramaic Bible is presented which includes the articles "The Treatment of Poverty and Theodicy in the Syriac Translation of Ben Sira," by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, "The Use of Eschatological Lists within the Targumim of the Megilloth," by Christian M. M. Brady, and "Telltale Signs of a Semitic Prototext for the Peshitta of Daniel," by Jerome A. Lund.

A bibliography on the subject of Aramaic Bible is presented which include several books "The Targum of Lamentations," by Philip S. Alexander, "The Targum to Canticles: According to Six Yemen Manuscripts," by Raphael Hai Melamed, and "Theological Alterations in the Syriac Translation of Ben Sira," by Michael Winter.

A bibliography on the subject of Aramaic Bible is presented which includes the book "The Use of the Syriac Versions in the Liturgy," by S.P. Brock, a book "On the Typology of Jewish Psalms Interpretation," by Alan Cooper, and a book "Peshitta New Testament Quotations in the West Syrian Anaphoras: Some General Observations," by Baby Varghese.

A list of articles related to Aramaic Bible that were published in several journals is presented including "Translation and Interpretation in the Targum to the Books of Kings," by Carol A. Dray and "Determination in Targum Jonathan to Samuel," by Renaud J. Kuty.

The article presents a bibliography of many articles on theology. Some of the articles are "Prophets and Prophecy in Targum Jonathan to the Prophets" by Moshe Aberbach and edited by J. Harold Ellens; "The Hymn of the Pearl," by Sebastian Brock; "The Aramaic Background of Mark 9:11: A Response to J.K. Aitken," by Maurice Casey; "Le Targum sur le psaume 21," by Philippe Cassuto and edited by Gilles Dorival; "Theodicy in the Targumim," by Bruce Chilton and edited by A. Laato and J.C. de Moor, "The Aramaic Dialect of the James Ossuary Inscription," by Paul V.M. Flesher.