Rosenthal Franz. A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1961. — 108 p. — (Porta linguarum Orientalium, Neue Serie 5).The purpose of this grammar is twofold. It is, on the one hand, to provide the beginners with the elements of the language, and, on the other, to prepare them for possible research in the problems of Aramaeology.Biblical Aramaic grammars are customarily written in the assumption that the reader will have previously acquired a good knowledge of Biblical Hebrew. This assumption may be correct, but it seems a poor justification for not giving Biblical Aramaic its due as a language in its own right. Therefore, no knowledge of Hebrew is presupposed here.