A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic, Second Revised Edition (Handbook of Oriental Studies / Handbuch Der Orientalistik) (English and Aramaic Edition) - Softcover

Muraoka, Takamitsu; Porten, Bezalel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628370378 ISBN 13: 9781628370379

Publisher: SBL Press, 2014

Synopsis

This complete grammar of Egyptian Aramaic, as presented in texts of Egyptian provenance dating from the middle of the first millennium BCE, covers phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, and syntax, and is essential for every Aramaist, Semitist and historian in the field.

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About the Author

Takamitsu Muraoka, Ph.D. (1970) in Hebrew, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at the State University of Leiden, The Netherlands. His past publications deal with the Hebrew/Aramaic/Syriac linguistics and the ancient versions of the Old Testament; e.g. Emphatic Words and Structures of Biblical Hebrew (Jerusalem/Leiden), Classical Syriac for Hebraists (Wiesbaden, 1987), P. Jouon - T. Muraoka A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew (Rome, 1993) and A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint (Leuven, 2003). Bezalel Porten, Ph.D. (1964) in Jewish History, Columbia University, is Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications focus on the ancient Egyptian Aramaic texts, and include Archives from Elephantine (Berkeley, 1968) and, jointly with A. Yardeni, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4 vols. (Jerusalem, 1986-).

Language Notes

Text: English

Edition details

• Publisher: SBL Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1628370378
• ISBN 13: 9781628370379
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 470