Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

I have Rosenthal's 5 volumes and I honestly don't think you could do 
better. 

cmeadows3 AT verizon.net wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I was looking to see if the "B Aramaic" still existed but perhaps it does not.  I've 
> been looking at some various Aramaic grammars.  Pretty thin pickings.  I have the works by Alger 
> Johns and Stevenson.  I have not seen Greenspahn or Rosenthal but I hear they are good (esp the 
> latter).  Anyone here familiar with David Marcus' grammar or the volume on "Galilean 
> Aramaic" by Caspar Levias?  Perhaps the Bergstrasser and Brockelmann give a good overview of 
> Aramaic?
>
> I feel pretty confident with Hebrew and I'm mostly concerned with the 
> biblical era (non-Syriac) Aramaic.  It seems that most of the available 
> grammar just concentrate on the small portions of Aramaic in the bible and 
> ignore the DSS, Targums, and other important writings.
>
> Any thoughts?

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