Studies in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic : : based upon early Eastern manuscripts / / by Matthew Morgenstern.
This book is the first wide-ranging study of the grammar of the Babylonian Aramaic used in the Talmud and post-Talmudic Babylonian literature (henceforth: Rabbinic Babylonian Aramaic) to be published in English in a century. The book takes as its starting point the long-recognized problem of the cor...
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Toward a New Grammar of Rabbinic Babylonian Aramaic -- From Yemen to Babylonia in the Study of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic -- Variant Forms in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic -- The Direct Object in Rabbinic Babylonian Aramaic: Text, Structure, and Semantics -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Grammatical Index. |
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