Author: T. Muraoka
Publisher:
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Category : Hebraists
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: W. Th Van Peursen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004163948
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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After subjecting the Syriac translation of Ben Sira to traditional philological analysis the author conducts computer-assisted linguistic studies of phrases, clauses and texts. He reaches particularly interesting proposals for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix.

Author: T. Muraoka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Benjamin Davidson
Publisher:
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Category : Syriac language
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Theodore Henry Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019968717X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Classical Syriac is the third language of early Christian literature after Greek and Latin, and as a dialect of Aramaic it has a special relationship with the words of Jesus. This sixth edition of the classic textbook continues to provide a clear introduction to the language, with larger text and improved explanations.

Author: Jan Joosten
Publisher: Simor Limited
ISBN: 9789652420114
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The verbal system of Biblical Hebrew has been a daunting challenge for Hebraists, Bible scholars, and comparative Semitists. Already in ancient versions we see translators struggling with it. Good understanding of the verbal system is of vital importance not only for grammarians, but also for exegetes. In the past one and half a century or so some significant advances have been made, thanks to the discovery of new texts in Hebrew and cognate Semitic languages and developments in general linguistics, even the discovery of totally new languages such as Ugaritic and Eblaite. Not a few scholars have made use of these new data and applied new linguistic perspectives in order to elucidate the Hebrew verbal system as a whole and various aspects of the system. Joosten is one such. With his profound expertise in Biblical Hebrew, the Jewish Bible, Classical Syriac and the Septuagint he presents here an impressive synthesis of the modern studies of the Hebrew verbal system. It goes far beyond a mere critical survey of the past and present studies, but Joosten has conducted his own research on the subject over the past two decades or so. This book is focused on the classical prose of Genesis up to Kings, though more than cursory attention has been paid to later texts and poetic texts. The analysis and presentation of data is commendably lucid, backed up with plentiful examples. The author's use of technical terms, some not part of the common parlance of Bible scholars, is user-friendly and not off-putting. Joosten is modestly aware himself that he has not said the last word, but has broadened our horizon. We have here an essential reading not only for Hebraists and Semitists, but also for anyone seriously interested in the Jewish Bible.

Author: T. Muraoka
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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This up-to-date grammar of Egyptian Aramaic of the middle of the first millennium BCE is meant to replace P. Leander's grammar of 1928, but also has a substantial section on syntax, which was totally lacking in Leander's grammar. The grammar is based on a much greater amount of texts than is the case with Leander's grammar, but also on an edition of texts incorporating a personal fresh study of them as presented in Porten and Yardeni's "Textbook of Aramaic Texts from Ancien Egypt" (1986).

Author: Jan Joosten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004100367
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Author: Jan Joosten
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004348395
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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The aim of the present work is to make a contribution to the understanding of the inner workings of the Syriac language through a study of one important corpus written in that language. The book contains four chapters on aspects of Syriac syntax. In addition, a chapter on inner-Syriac developments — traceable owing to the fact that the Gospel of Matthew was translated several times and at different dates — and a chapter on the process of translation from Greek into Syriac are included as well. The analysis of the language of the Syriac versions of Matthew facilitates the use of these versions in textual criticism of the New Testament. Moreover, close study of these texts allows some light to be shed on the history of the text of the Gospel.

Author: Ignacio Carbajosa
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004170561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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This book, that investigates the character of the Peshitta in Psalms 90-150, is designed as a tool for scholars who seek to understand the readings preserved in the Peshitta. Questions as the theology of the translation, the identity of the translators, and the relationships among the manuscripts are also raised.