Overview
This is a complete grammar of Egyptian Aramaic as presented in texts of Egytian provenance dating from the middle of the first millenium BC, and as edited by B. Porten and A. Yardeni in their ""Textbook of Aramaic documents from Ancient Egypt"" (1986). The grammar covers not only the phonology and morphology, but contains a section on morphosyntax and syntax. It is a descriptive grammer with the contents and background of the texts in question. It is meant to replace P. Leander's ""Laut- und Formenlehre des Agyptisch-Aramaischen"" (1928), but also supplement it as it had no syntax.
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Author: Takamitsu Muraoka ,
Bezalel Porten
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 32
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.861kg
ISBN: 9789004104990
ISBN 10: 9004104992
Pages: 393
Publication Date: 01 December 1997
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
' The grammar by Muraoka and Porten will be effectively and gratefully used for linguistic studies as well as for interpretation of texts. Various problems will be led to at least preliminary solution with help of analysis and critical notes.'Stanislav Segert, Archiv Orientalni, 1998.' Readers who are familiar with the textual material will find stimulating grammatical interpretations that, if taken seriously and critically, will pave the way to a deeper understanding of Egyptian Aramaic.'Austinus Gianto, Orientalia, 2000.
'The grammar by Muraoka and Porten will be effectively and gratefully used for linguistic studies as well as for interpretation of texts. Various problems will be led to at least preliminary solution with help of analysis and critical notes.' Stanislav Segert, Archiv Orientalni, 1998. 'Readers who are familiar with the textual material will find stimulating grammatical interpretations that, if taken seriously and critically, will pave the way to a deeper understanding of Egyptian Aramaic.' Austinus Gianto, Orientalia, 2000.
' The grammar by Muraoka and Porten will be effectively and gratefully used for linguistic studies as well as for interpretation of texts. Various problems will be led to at least preliminary solution with help of analysis and critical notes.'<br>Stanislav Segert, Archiv Orientalni, 1998.<br>' Readers who are familiar with the textual material will find stimulating grammatical interpretations that, if taken seriously and critically, will pave the way to a deeper understanding of Egyptian Aramaic.'<br>Austinus Gianto, Orientalia, 2000.
Author Information
Takamitsu Muraoka, Ph.D. (1970) in Hebrew, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at the State University of Leiden, The Netherlands. His past publications deal with the Hebrew/Aramaic/Syriac linguistics and the ancient versions of the Old Testament; e.g. Emphatic Words and Structures of Biblical Hebrew (Jerusalem/Leiden), Classical Syriac for Hebraists (Wiesbaden, 1987), P. Jouon - T. Muraoka A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew (Rome, 1993) and A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint (Leuven, 2003). Bezalel Porten, Ph.D. (1964) in Jewish History, Columbia University, is Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications focus on the ancient Egyptian Aramaic texts, and include Archives from Elephantine (Berkeley, 1968) and, jointly with A. Yardeni, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4 vols. (Jerusalem, 1986-).
