Grammar of the Biblical Chaldaic Language and the Talmud Babli idioms
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Today’s free book is a grammar of Biblical Chaldean, today known as Aramaic. This public domain copy was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.
Samuel David Luzzatto [1800-1865], Grammar of the Biblical Chaldaic Language and the Talmud Babli idioms; translated from the Italian, and largely reviewed by J.S. Goldammer. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1876. Hbk. pp.121. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- Preface by the Editor
- Introductory Remarks
- The Noun
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Conjugations of Perfect Verbal Stems
- Quiescent Verbs—Verbs with the First Radical Quiescent
- Verbs with the Second Radical Quiescent
- Verbs with the Third Radical Quiescent
- Verbs of Weak Roots
- Anomalies in the Conjugations of Some Verbs
- Verbal SuffixesIntro
- Numbers
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Interjections
- Grammar of the Chaldaic Idiom of the Babylonian Talmud
- Introductory Remarks
- Prefixed Particles
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Numbers
- The Verbs
- Verbal Suffixes
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Interjections