Complete Aramaic: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Aramaic, with Original Texts

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Designed for complete beginners, and tested with real learners, Complete Aramaic offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate Biblical texts written in the language spoken by Jesus and the earliest Christian community.

Structured around authentic material including Biblical extracts from the books of Daniel and Ezra as well as extracts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, using original exercises and full grammatical support, this course also features:

-24 short learning units plus glossary and reference section

-Authentic materials - language taught through key texts

-Teaches the key skills - reading and understanding Aramaic grammar and vocabulary

-Includes readings from ancient papyri and the Dead Sea Scrolls

-Self tests and learning activities - see and track your own progress

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Author Bio

Eric Reymond is Lector in Biblical Hebrew at Yale Divinity School. He has studied Aramaic in all its forms, as well as Syriac, and has taught Aramaic to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Yale University. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews, in addition to two books, and has created a website specifically to teach Aramaic to those with no previous experience of Semitic languages.