> WHile at SL last weekend, I didn't see the new Aramaic grammer from
>Scholars Press. Did anyone see it and does anyone have an iopinion on
>it? Would it be worth ordering for self-study? I've never taken an
>Aramaic course, and at the moment have no space in my schedule to do
>so.I have Rosenthal's grammer but that is not a book for learning
>Aramaic from so far as I can tell. Thanks.
Ken, I can't say anything about the new grammar from Scholars' Press, but
you're certainly right
bout Rosenthal. It's a reference grammar. Our first year Aramaic class uses
it in conjunction
with Yerushalmi's inductive study of Ezra and Daniel, available from HUC/JIR.
Jane Harper
Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA