Davila points to Bavli Tamid. This is a tractate in that Talmud which is classically considered to be off the standard eastern Aramaic.
It seems one Noam Eisenstein has found, with an algorithm, that Tamid actually is typically Talmudic... except where it talks about Alexander. Yes, that Alexander. Alexander cast a long shadow in the Aramaic Orient.
What I can't find in this press release is whether we're dealing with a special dialect for storytelling (like in Callisthenes' Romance), or plain Syriac or Hatrene, or even the hoary Palaestinian dialects used in certain Targums. The paper of DOI 10.3828/jjs.2024.75.1.1 is paywalled.
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