Levias C. A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom Contained in the Babylonian Talmud

Number of pages: 72A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom Contained in the Babylonian Talmud: With Constant Reference to Gaonic Literature.
The Babylonian Talmud is written partly in Hebrew and partly in Aramaic. The latter is a dialect of upper Babylonia, still spoken in the eleventh century,' and is closely akin to the
Mandaic. The Babylonian Talmud, or, more precisely, the Babylonian Gemara, was committed to writing about 500 A. D., but did not receive its final shape before the close of the eighth century. It is a compilation of literary productions extending, in the main, over a period of nearly three centuries (200-500). Earlier elements are found in the formulae of legal documents, in extracts
from Meghillath Taantth and from encyclicals of the patriarch R.