Margaretha Folmer
University Lecturer Hebrew and Aramaic
- Name
- Dr. M.L. Folmer
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2513
- m.l.folmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2439-2347
Margaretha Folmer is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.
Fields of interest
Imperial Aramaic; Targumic literature; Biblical literature; Qumran Aramaic and Dead Sea Scrolls; Rabbinic Literature; History of Aramaic and Hebrew language; Languages in contact; Bilingualism; Comparative Semitics; Hebrew and Aramaic magical literature.
Research
Description of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Description: The aim of this project is to provide for a detailed linguistic description of the Palestinian Aramaic language from the period of Middle Aramaic and the period of Late Aramaic. This description will be based on the inscriptional material, which has increased enormously since the publication of Dalman's grammar in 1905 (G. Dalman, Grammatik des jüdisch-palestinischen Aramäisch, Leipzig 1905). With their variety in place, date of origin and textual genre these inscriptions allow for a linguistic investigation of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic in its Apure form, without later textual revisions and errors which are inherent to texts with a long textual history.
CV
2006-2007 Teacher of Talmudic Aramaic, Levisson Institute, Amsterdam (Academy for Progressive Jewish Rabbis).
1998 - Lecturer of Aramaic, Dept. of Hebrew and Aramaic, Universiteit Leiden
1991- Teacher of Hebrew, Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
1991-1992 Teacher of Hebrew, Dept. of Hebrew and Aramaic, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
1995 Defence of doctoral dissertation “The Aramaic Language in the Achaemenid Period. A Study in Linguistic Variation (promotor: Prof. dr. J. Hoftijzer). Universiteit Leiden, September 2005.
1987-1995 Ph.D. student, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden.
1984-1985 Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
1977-1986 Student of Semitic Languages (Major: Hebrew, minor: Arabic; Comparative Semitic Languages; Cultural Anthropology), Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (MA degree: May 1986).
1971-1977 Gymnasium Haganum, The Hague.
Key publications
- Folmer, M.L. (2001). The use of morphological features to distinguish Aramaic dialects The case of the pronominal suffix sing.3rd masc. in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. Dutch Studies (Leiden) (Rugtitel: DS-NELL), IV(2), pp. 175-188.
- Folmer, M.L. (2003). Some Peculiarities in the Spelling of the Aramaic Bar Kochba Letters in Comparison with Contemporary Aramaic Documents from the Judean Desert Caves. Dutch Studies (Leiden) (Rugtitel: DS-NELL), 1(2), pp. 59-74.
- Folmer, M.L. (2003). Methatesis in Jewish Aramaic: A So-Called 'Pan-Semitic' Feature Recondsidered. In Baasten, M.F.J. & Peursen, W.Th. van (Ed.), Hamlet on a Hill. Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birhday. (pp. 233-244). Leuven: Peeters.
- Folmer, M.L. (2004). Response to Paul Flesher, 'The Aramaic Dialect of the James Ossuary Inscription'. Aramaic Studies, 2(1), pp. 56-62.
- Verheij, A.J.C. & Folmer, M.L. (2004). Basisgrammatica van het bijbels Hebreeuws. Oefenboek. Delft: Eburon, 73 pp.
- Folmer, M.L. (2003). Officiele Aramese correspondenties uit de satrapie Egypte. In Demaree, R.J. & Veenhof, K.R. (Ed.), Zij schreven geschiedenis. Historische documenten uit het Oude Nabije Oosten (2500 - 100 v. Chr.). (pp. 387-397). Leiden/Leuven: Ex Oriente Lux/Peeters.
Teaching
Current: Imperial Aramaic; Biblical Aramaic; Qumran Aramaic; Targumic Aramaic; Jewish Palestinian Aramaic; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic; Northwest Semitic epigraphy; Cultural History of Aramaic
Past: Biblical Hebrew Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Biblical Hebrew (current) and Modern Hebrew (in the past)
University Lecturer Hebrew and Aramaic
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES Hebreeuws en Aramees
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Taalwetenschap
- Folmer M.L. (2017), Hi Aḥuṭab: ostraca from Elephantine with letters in Aramaic (5th c. BCE and beyond) [International conference Using Ostraca in the Ancient World: New Discoveries and Methodologies, Heidelberg 12-14 October 2017]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2017), The eastern Aramaic infinitive form in TO and TJ [Aramaic – Linguistic Diversity across Three Millennia, Philipps University, Marburg, September 25-26 2017]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2017), Eastern Aramaic direct object marking in Targum Onqelos and Targum Jonathan [North Atlantic Conference for Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, Leiden, June 9-11 2017]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2017), Het gebruik van de nota objecti in joodsaramese bijbelvertalingen [Societas Hebraica Amselodamensis, 19 januari 2017]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2017), Huwelijk en scheiding in joodse magische bronnen [Studiedag Vereniging Hebreeuws, 14 December 2017 Amsterdam, PThU]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2016), Aramaic Letters on leather from Ancient Bactria [Beyond Papyri: The Materiality of Ancient Texts, Leiden, 27-29 oktober 2016]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2016), Paleographic Aspects of the Aramaic Akhvamazda letter from Ancient Bactria (4th c. BCE) [Paleography in Context – Aramaic scripts from the Ancient Near East, Leiden 13 oktober 2016]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2016), Eastern Aramaic Direct Object Marking in Targum Onqelos and Targum Jonathan [IOSOT/IOTS, Stellenbosch, 4-9 september 2016]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. & Verhasselt R. (2016), Het bezoek van de Koningin van Seba aan koning Salomo in jodendom, christendom en islam [Studiedag Vereniging Hebreeuws 23 november 2016, Catharijne Convent Utrecht]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2015), On Marrying and Divorcing a Demon: Marriage and Divorce Themes in Jewish Demon Tales, with Parallels from Other Traditions [Jewish and Christian Perspectives: Stories and Traditions in Transformation, Amsterdam, 31 mei – 3 juni 2015]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2015), Hoe trouw je met een demon en hoe kom je er weer vanaf: over huwelijken en scheidingen tussen mensen en demonen in verhalen in het Jodendom vanaf de Late Oudheid [Lezing t.g.v. 40-jarig jubileum Studievereniging Pleyte Leiden, 6 juni 2015]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2015), Bijbel en Magie [Ex Oriente Lux, Leuven 11 maart 2015]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2014), Translation of the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute in Targum Onqelos to the Pentateuch. [15th Meeting of Afroasiatic Linguistics, Rome, 17-19 september 2014]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2014), Demonstrative Pronouns in Aramaic: New Information from the Aramaic Documents from Bactria (4th c. B.C.E.) [North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Leiden, februari 2014]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2014), Joodse magie in de late oudheid [Studievereniging Pleyte, 31 mei 2014]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2014), Magische schalen in het Joods Babylonisch Aramees [Studievereniging Sababa, 6 mei 2014]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2013), The Translation of Biblical Hebrew Clauses with ב / כ + Construct Infinitive in Targum Onqelos [IOSOT / International Organisation for Targumic Studies, München, augustus 2013]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2013), The Contribution of Elephantine to the Study of Aramaic [Society of Biblical Literature; special sessions on Elephantine, in honor of Prof. Porten, prof. em. Hebrew University Jerusalem, St. Andrews, juli 2013]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2013), The Administration of the Achaemenid Empire. [The Administration of the Achaemenid Empire: Imperial Networks and Structures, Basel, mei 2013]. [lecture].
- Folmer M.L. (2013), Het belang van de Dode Zee Rollen voor het vroege jodendom [Studiedag Qumran, 1 oktober 2013, RMO Leiden]. [lecture].
- docent Hebreeuws; sinds maart 2013 universitair docent