Gzella, H., A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam: [Review]

While there exist recent book-length overviews on the history of the most prominent Semitic languages, viz. Hebrew (e.g., A History of the Hebrew Language by Angel Saenz-Badillos) and Arabic (e.g., Grundrib der arabischen Philologie, edited by Wolfdietrich Ficher & Helmut Gatje), such sketches are unavailable for most other languages. [from the review]