36.986, Books: A Manual of the Chaldee Language: Riggs (2025)

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Date: 20-Mar-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Manual of the Chaldee Language: Riggs (2025)


Title: A Manual of the Chaldee Language
Subtitle: Containing a Chaldee Grammar, a Chrestomathy and a
Vocabulary with an Appendix of the Rabbinic and Samaritan Dialects
Series Title: LINCOM Gramatica 111
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783862901517%22

Author(s): Elias Riggs

ISBN 9783862901517 (paperback), 14.8 x 21 cm, 160pp., EUR 66.80.

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation




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