Basics of Biblical Aramaic

Basics of Biblical Aramaic
Author: Miles V. Van Pelt
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Aramaic language
ISBN: 9780310493914

This easy-to-understand book includes everything you need to learn Biblical Aramaic, including a lexicon of Biblical Aramaic, the complete annotated text of all 269 Bible verses written in Aramaic, and chapter exercises with an answer answer key.

A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods

A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods
Author: Michael Sokoloff
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 1610
Release: 2002
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780801872334

The first new dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic in a century, this towering scholarly achievement provides a complete lexicon of the entire vocabulary used in both literary and epigraphic sources from the Jewish community in Babylon from the third century C.E. to the twelfth century. Author Michael Sokoloff's primary source is, of course, the Babylonian Talmud, one of the most important and influential works in Jewish literature. Unlike the authors of previous dictionaries of this dialect, however, he also uses a variety of other sources, from inscriptions and legal documents to other rabbinical literature. A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic also differs from earlier lexographic efforts in its focus on a single dialect. Previous dictionaries have been composite works containing various Aramaic dialects from different periods, blurring distinctions in meaning and nuance. Sokoloff has been able to draw on the most current linguistic and textual scholarship to ensure the complete accuracy of his lexical entries, each of which is divided into six parts: lemma or root, part of speech, English gloss, etymology, semantic features, and bibliographic references. Another important feature in this invaluable reference work is its index of all cited passages, which allows the reader of a given text to easily find the semantics of a particular word. In addition to linguists and specialists in Jewish Aramaic literature, lay readers and students will also find this comprehensive, up-to-date dictionary useful for understanding the Babylonian Talmud.

The Semitic Languages

The Semitic Languages
Author: Stefan Weninger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1298
Release: 2011-12-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110251582

The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.

A Grammar of the Palestinian Targum Fragments from the Cairo Genizah

A Grammar of the Palestinian Targum Fragments from the Cairo Genizah
Author: Steven Ellis Fassberg
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004369619

Preliminary Material /Steven E. Fassberg -- Introduction /Steven E. Fassberg -- Description and Classification of Manuscripts /Steven E. Fassberg -- Orthography and Phonology /Steven E. Fassberg -- Syllable Structure /Steven E. Fassberg -- Rule of Shewa /Steven E. Fassberg -- Morphology /Steven E. Fassberg -- Two Syntactic Features /Steven E. Fassberg -- Tables /Steven E. Fassberg -- Indices /Steven E. Fassberg -- Bibliography /Steven E. Fassberg -- Addenda and Corrigenda /Steven E. Fassberg.