Syriac Grammar with Bibliography, Chrestomathy and Glossary

292 Pages·2002·16 MB·English

by  Eberhard Nestle (Author)

Syriac Grammar
Second Edition
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PORTA
INCHOAVIT
J. H. PETER MANN
CONTINUAVIT
HERM. L. STRACK.
ELEMENTA LINGUARUM
HEBRAICAE, PHOENICIAE, BIBLICO-AR AMAICAE, TARGUMICAE,
SAMARITAXAE, SYRIACAE, ARABICAE, AETHIOPICAE,
ASSYRIACAE, AEGYPTIACAE, COPTICAE, ARMENIACAE,
PERSICAE, TPRClCAE,
ALIARUM
STUDIIS AGADE.MIC1S ACCOMMODAYERIJNT
J. H. PETERMANN, H. L. STRACK, E. NESTLE, A. SOCIN,
F. PRAETORIUS, AD. MERX, AUG. MUELLER, FRIEDR.
DELITZSCH, C. SALEMAN, W. SHUKOWSKI.
G. JACOB, alii.
PARS V.
GRAMMATICA SYRIACA
EDITIO ALTERA AUCTA ET EMENDATA
8CRIPSIT
Dr. EBERARDUS NESTLE.
SYRIAC GRAMMAR
WITH
BIBLIOGRAPHY, CHRESTOMATHY AND GLOSSARY
BY
Dk. EBERNARD NESTLE.
SECOND ENLARGED AND IMPROVED EDITION
O? IHh
BREVIS LINGU.E SYRIACJE GRAMMAT1CA.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY
ARCHD. R. 8. KENNEDY, B. D.,
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Syriac Grammar with Bibliography, Chrestomathy and Glossary
By Nestle, Eberhard
ISBN: 1-57910-964-0
Publication date 5/15/2002
Previously published by H. Reuther's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1889
PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION.
Had I alone been concerned, I should not have
undertaken a new edition of the Syriac Porta. For
what we need for Syriac, as for most other Semitic
languages, is the investigation of special questions,
linguistic, historic and other, similar to those which
de La garde has given us on the figtree and Astartc
or Wellhausen on the remains of Arabic heathendom,
and not fresh presentations of what everybody knows.
Moreover, since the appearance of the first edition
(1881), I have ceased to have occasion to lecture on
Syriac. On the other hand, the speedy sale of my
book showed me that it really supplied a want, and
accordingly I have done what 1 could for the new
edition. Like other parts of the Porta, the Syriac
grammar no longer appears in Latin but in German
and English—which explains the arrangement of the
second half of the book. The part comprising the
Grammar, notwithstanding the addition of a few ob¬
servations on the Syntax, occupies less space than in
I
the first edition. As regards the Bibliography, thought
VL PREFACE.
first of omitting almost entirely sections I and II
(pp. 3—30), retaining only such books as are still of
importance; finally, however, I resolved to make the
bibliography in these and the other divisions as com¬
plete as possible. Somewhere, it seems to me, one
ought to find such a record of the labours of our
predecessors. Up to p. 30, books which I have not seen
myself are indicated as before by an asterisk. The diffi¬
culties with which I had to contend, in having to work
at a distance from a library, can only be understood
bv those who are similarlv situated; even Klatt’s Bi-
bliography was not accessible. On the other hand I
have here to thank a number of friends, particularly
abroad, most of them personally unknown to me, who
have helped me by sending me their publications, a
number of which will be found in the “appendicula”;
I would specially thank Prof. I. II. Hall of New York
for the aid he has rendered me in the Bibliography.
This section of the book, large enough as it is, I
could easily have increased in one direction at least,
for I have made a practice of noting down all the
reviews with which I have become acquainted; of
these, however. I have only occasionally cited one or
two, it being still worth while to see, for example,
what a scholar like de Sacy had to say to the elder
Hoffmann in 11 pages of the Journal des Savants.
From A. Miiller’s new Oriental Bibliography (I, 1—3)
I might have added a few more titles; I mention the