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Chris Brady posted on the finalization of the Aramaic Studies sessions for the Society of Biblical Literature conference in San Francisco in November<\/a>. I am privileged to be reading what I assume will be the first instance of a paper related to the Mandaic dialect of Aramaic in that section. The title will be \u201cThe Satirical Use of Christian Material in the Mandaean Book of John<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"