Max L. Margolis

A Manual of the Aramaic Language of the Babylonian Talmud: Grammar Chrestomathy and Glossaries Max L. Margolis Blg Rep Edition

PREFACE As far back as 18~4, Professor H~R,.'SANN L. S'l'RAClC, {If the University of Berlin 1 who ]la.d fa.vorably noticed my firEt tv-o publications, both dealing with t]1O textual ('riticism of the Talmud, suggeste(l to me the writing nf a work to aU intents a.nd pnrposos similar' to the vresent one. The plan was elahorMtell in detail, and 1 aetu<'Llly commenced work on u· number of larger texts. Soon, however, I realized that with the meaus at my dis· posnl it ,vas impossible for me to arrive at (l, satisfactory form of the text. lIoreover, my professional work lying in other t1irections, I was forced to aba.ndoll for tbe time being ;111 t]lOlIght of prosecuting this plan. VllCn jn the autumn of 1907 I visited Germany, Prof. STRACK urged mc to let go for a while my Septua.gint studies and t.o resume tllat long neglect.ell. piece of 'l'almudic work. 'Vith the aid of . T U. DM( . SE~l'S :i;~n ;"1"ilrp, ISRAt;. L ~hCHELS'r; D'l"S p~i' ",~, MOYSE SCl

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Grammar; Introduction (§ 1-3); The Aramaic Idiom of the Babylonian Talmud Its; Place in General Aramaic ; Script and Orthography ; lIeans of }'ixing the V ccalization ; I Phonology (§ 4-7); The Consonants and their Cbanges · ·; The Vowels and their Changes · · · Syllabic Loss Loss of Sounds through Col1ocation; of 'Vords in the Sentence ; The Accent · · ·; II Morphology (§ 8-41); A The Pronoun (§ 8-11); Personal Pronoun · ·; Demonstrative Pronoun; ReJative Pronoun · · · Interrogath'c Pronoun ·; B The Noun (§ 12-23); (a) The :8ominal Steme (§ 12-1S); · ·; · · ·; · · ·; ·; · · ·; IJnge; 1; 3; 7; 8; 10; 15; 15; 16; 17; 18; IS; § 12 PrcJiolinary Remarks 19; § 13 § 14 'l'riconsonanlal ~ominal Stems with Yowel Gr:lc13tion 22; § t 5 'With the Middle Hadical Geminate 22; § 16, 'Vith Prefixcs '25; § 17, Plurieonsonantal Stems 25; § 18 Denominati"es formed by me:lnS o~ Aftortnath-c8 2G; (b) Inflection (§ 19-22); § t 9 Infleetiona} Endings , ? , ,