Syriac Grammar Second Edition Eberhard Nestle V ^ 1 °^~ Hibris UTtl) tflarbutljo Uibrarp I he Malphono George Anton Kiraz Collection Lo,. ^ Lo LaXja^S. C>vX -^Ois^, L^,’ '5^3 o! *'-■—* L\m VI loOU |OOD SuX . r>rr»Q» 1 ytO 'V°lj Oa.«4 l«-v.jno L°>\i q. .. i -> 3^0 I-^-cd loou o^, 1^, ^ K \ -^Soui Loo_X »OiUO^ An\one who asks tor this volume, to read, collate, or copy from it, and who appropriates it to himself or herself, or cuts anything out of it, should realize that (s)he will have to give answer before (»ods awesome tribunal as if (s)he had robbed a sanctuary. Ix-t such a person be licit! anathema anti receive no forgiveness until the book is returned. So l>c it. Amen! And anyone who removes these anathemas, digitally or otherwise, shall himself receive them in double. * • X • X • X • V • V 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., PROP, or ORIENTAL LANGl'AGES, UX1V. OK ABERDEEN. Wipf and Stock Publishers EUGENE, OREGON Wipf and Stock Publishers 199 West 8th Avenue, Suite 3 Eugene, Oregon 97401 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