A Manual of the Chaldee Language

Containing a Chaldee Grammar, a Chrestomathy and a Vocabulary with an Appendix of the Rabbinic and Samaritan Dialects

von Elias Riggs

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Aramean comprises two principal subdivisions; viz. the Syriac, sometimes called, by way of distinction, West Aramean, and the Chaldee, or East Aramean. The appropriate region of the latter was the province of Babylonia, between Euphrates and Tigris, the original inhabitants of which cultivated this language as a distinct dialect, and communicated it to the Jews during the Babylonian exile.
By means of the Jews the Chaldee was transplanted into Palestine, where it became the vernacular tongue, and was employed by them, as it had been in Babylonia, as the language of books. Though the Aramean as spoken by Jews partook somewhat of the Hebrew character no entire or very important corruption of it took place; and to this circumstance alone the Babylonians are indebted for the survival, or at least the partial reservation, of their language, which, even in the mother country, has, since the spread of Islamism, become extict.
The principal remains of the Chaldee dialect in our possession are in the canonical books, Ezra, Daniel and Jerem and a class of translations and paraphrases of the books of the O. Test. (Targums) which have originated in different ages, and which exhibit very considerable varieties of linguistic and exegetical character. (adapted from the Preface and Introduction. Re-edition. Originally published 1859 in New York).
Contents: Preface: Introduction. Chaldee Language and Literature. Grammar: Orthography and Orthoepy, Etymology, Syntax. Chrestomathy. Vocabulary. Appendix: Rabbinical Dialect. Samaritan Dialect.

• ISBN: 9783862901517
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.02.2025
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Sonstige Sprachen, Sonstige Literaturen
• Verlag: LINCOM GmbH