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Canaan (Biblical Israel): Aramaic Language

References on Canaanite, Phoenician, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Ugaritic.

Aramaic Dictionaries

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Armstrong, Terry A., 1944-. A reader's Hebrew-English lexicon of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Regency Reference Library, [1984]-c1988. Call #= PJ4833 .A69 1984

Brown, Francis, 1849-1916. The new Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Hebrew and English lexicon : with an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic. Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, c1979. Call #= PJ4833 .B682 1979

Carmell, Aryeh. Aiding Talmud study = Siyata li-Gemara. Jerusalem ; New York : Feldheim Publishers, c1998. Call #= PJ4908 .C287 1998

Davidson, Benjamin, d. 1871. The analytical Hebrew and Chaldee lexicon. Lynn, Mass. : Hendrickson Pub. Inc., [1981]. Call #= PJ4833 .D38 1981

Fohrer, Georg. Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary of the Old Testament. Berlin, New York, W. de Gruyter, 1973. Call #= PJ4833 .F613

Frank, Yitzhak. The practical Talmud dictionary. Jerusalem, Israel : Ariel, United Israel Institutes ; Spring Valley, N.Y. : Feldheim Publishers, sole distributor, 1994. Call #= PJ5305 .F73 1994

Hebrew-English lexicon, containing all the Hebrew and Chaldee words in the Old Testament scriptures, with their meanings in English. [London] Samuel Bagster [1974?]. Call #= PJ4833 .F613

Holladay, William Lee. A concise Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament. Leiden, Brill, 1971. Call #= PJ4833 .H6 1971

Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903. A dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi and the Midrashic literature. [Tel Aviv? : s.n.], [1972?]. Call #= PJ5205 .J3 1972

Kohler, Ludwig, 1880-1956. The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament. Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994-. Call #= PJ4833 .K64 1994

Sokoloff, Michael. A dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods / Michael Sokoloff. Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Call #= PJ5305 .S65 2002

Sokoloff, Michael. A dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine period. Ramat Gan : Bar Ilan University Press, 1990. Call #= PJ5205 .S6 1990

Aramaic Grammars

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Carmell, Aryeh. Aids to Talmud study. Jerusalem ; New York : Feldheim, 5735 [1975]. Call #= PJ4908 .C287 1975.

Johns, Alger F. A short grammar of Biblical Aramaic. Berrien Springs, Mich., Andrews University, c1963. Call #= PJ5213 .J6

Qimron, Elisha. Aramit mikrait. Yerushalayim : Mosad Byalik ; [Beersheba] : Hotsaat sefarim shel Universitat Ben-Guryon ba-Negev, c1993. Call #= PJ5214 .Q25 1993

Rosenthal, Franz, 1914-. A grammar of Biblical Aramaic. Wiesbaden, O. Harrassowitz, 1961. Call#= 492.1 R727g

Segert, S. (Stanislav). Altaramaische Grammatik. Leipzig : Verlag Enzyklopadie, VEB, 1975. Call #= PJ5213 .S45

Steinberg, Judah, 1863-1908. Sefat ha-Talmud ve-dikdukah. Varshah : Hotsaat "ha-Or," 670, 1909. Call #= PJ5302 .S84 1909

Stevenson, William Barron, 1869-. Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic. with an appendix on the numerals. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962. Call#= 492.1 St48g2

Aramaic Glossaries, Vocabularies, etc.

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Bergstrasser, Gotthelf, 1886-1933. Glossar des neuaramaischen Dialekts von Ma'lula. Nendeln, Liechtenstein : Kraus Reprint, 1966. Call #= PJ5 .D5 v.15

Cook, Edward M. A glossary of Targum Onkelos : according to Alexander Sperber's edition / by Edward M. Cook. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. Call #= BS1224.A73 C66 2008

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Archaeology: Anne Davis, Anthropology/Archaology Librarian; Email: mailto:adavey@u.washington.edu  Tel: (206) 616-1969

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