This standard grammar book of biblical Aramaic, used by students at many seminaries and universities, is the only one to include graded exercises at the close of each of its twenty lessons.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Good addition to Aramaic Library:
Yes, you should have a course ,or be self taught,in modern or biblical hebrew before tackling this or any other Aramaic grammer I've encountered. Fortunately a matching answer key book is now available.I personally spent 5 years as a part time student of biblical and modern hebrew and found this particular study sequence helpful. First I studied "An introduction to Aramaic-second edition-by Frederick Greenspahn" (available from Amazon)using this book as a companion/advanced study tool. Greenspahn's book... more info
Does just what it says on the box:
This is a good book for studying Biblical Aramaic. If you're ultimately interested in other phases of the language, it would be a good way to start. It's short, compact, reasonably challenging, and pretty serious. The only reason why I didn't give it five stars is because I find the author's style quite dull, and it really requires prior knowledge of Hebrew (or another Semitic language) to begin reading -- since the prerequisites aren't mentioned anywhere besides one of the first pages, I consider it a... more info
way over my head, but it looks thorough:
i was glad to discover this book at such a great price. i'm sure it's a valuable collection to one's semetic languages library. however, it uses Hebrew Script when i was hoping for Syriac, and skips over grammatical constructions one should have learned in Biblical Hebrew class. i'll need this someday, but - for now - i'm going looking for a syriac text, or something that starts with the alphabet... any suggestions?
A Helpful Book That Needs Help:
This book assumes that one trying to study Aramaic already knows Hebrew. If you know Hebrew then this book is pretty easy to follow. The one thing that is lacking is an answer key for the assignments. James N. Jumper has an annotated key that makes up for this deficiency and I strongly recommend it.
