@article {Elitzur_Bar-Asher_Siegal_80724188,
	title = {Are Literary Languages Artificial? The Case of the Aramaic of the Zohar},
	journal = {Aramaic Studies},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {1-22},
	abstract = {Few studies have focused on the Aramaic of the Zohar, and to this day, only one of these presents a completed grammatical analysis. Scholars have dealt at large, however, with the question of whether the Aramaic of the Zohar is artificial or not. I briefly review the history of the literature around this question, then propose my own criteria to examine whether a language of a given text is indeed artificial. Finally, I put this methodology into practice, as I investigate the nature of Zoharic Aramaic by examining specific linguistic phenomena in the relevant corpus.},
	issn = {1477-8351},
	doi = {10.1163/17455227-bja10002},
	url = {http://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10002},
	author = {Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal}
}
