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Resources/Where can I?
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Buy an Aramaic/English/Hebrew Peshitta:

http://www.aramaicbooks.com/default.php?cPath=37

http://www.assyrianmarket.com/bible-in-old-aramaic.html

http://aramaicnt.com/

http://www.aent.org/

Or Call the Chicago COE Parish
The number of Mar Gewargis is: (773) 465-4777
If you call on Sunday, between 11am - 1pm Central time, ask for the "Beth-Deshna" (giftshop), and they will transfer you. Ask them for the NT ancient tongue.


Learn Aramaic:

Learning Assyrian, the web archive of Learnassyrian.com
http://web.archive.org/web/2006120505353...guage.com/

Various
http://www.aramaicbooks.com/default.php?cPath=32

Various
http://www.aramaicbooks.com/default.php?cPath=33

Thomas Arayathinal's Aramaic Grammar in 3 volumes
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-bo...e-i/445848
http://www.gorgiaspress.com/BOOKSHOP/sho...b061c3c4a2
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/ARAARAMAI

Bookstores:

http://www.aramaicbooks.com

http://stores.lulu.com/atourpub

http://www.gorgiaspress.com

http://www.eisenbrauns.com

Find other books and media relating to the Peshitta:

HUGOYE: JOURNAL OF SYRIAC STUDIES
http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/

http://www.aramaicbible.org/ (Modern Aramaic but not completely Peshitta)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5RRkmrm8I8

http://media.inspirationalfilms.com/play...ean-ot.mp4

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Chris...0061472808

http://adrastea.ugr.es/record=b1478678*spi


And finally a note from Andrew Gabriel Roth:

Shlama all--

I have to take a moment and tell you all that I am just having a ball with <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="htttp://googlebooks.com">htttp://googlebooks.com</a><!-- m -->. Easiest way to get there is actually to type "Google Books" into the Google search engine, and it will come up. It is not on the world wide web, but worth the effotr to find. My friends, I have just filled a CD with tons of the greatest study tools imagineable. Some of these, like full files of Jastrow's Dictionary, came from a place called "Etana", formerly known as "Abzu" . You will need to query that name too--I don't have the link.

Other stuff is from peshitta.org--like the Tri linear targums. But the rest is from Google Books, and here are some highlights of what is free, public domain and very helpful resources for studying the Peshitta:

1) Two books by John Gwynn detailing the Crawford-Philoxenian relationship on the Western 5.
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2) Two books by JW Etheridge --absolutely the best English version of the Targums Onkelos, Jerusalem, Samaritan and Jonathan I have ever seen for the Torah books.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924074296975">http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924074296975</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/syrianchurchesth00ethe">http://www.archive.org/details/syrianchurchesth00ethe</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/apostolicalactse00ethe">http://www.archive.org/details/apostolicalactse00ethe</a><!-- m -->

3) Two books by Agnes Lewis on Old Syriac: Palestinian Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels, which is a comparison of both Old Syriac mss and a very obscure, unimportant yet interesting version known as "Hierosymalatian". You can see Murdock mention that one briefly in the notes I have. In any case this comparison of the 3 mss is quite well done, and I like the lectionary form, which is an Aramaic kind of lesson plan of parsha readings from the NT. Ms. Lewis has followed those plans and applied them to Old Syriac. The other is her famous translation of Old Syriac Siniaticus.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/palestiniansyri00gibsgoog">http://www.archive.org/details/palestin ... 00gibsgoog</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/translationoffou00lewi">http://www.archive.org/details/translationoffou00lewi</a><!-- m -->

4) Dr. Frederick Kenyon has a related study showing the links he sees between Old Syriac and Codex Bezae, which has long been discussed here. I have barely gotten into this essay, but I think his general methods are helpful while his conclusions might not be along what we usually think. Still, a very good read.


5) Then there's "Select Works of St. Ephrem the Syrian" by Revend JB Morris. Just skimmed it barely but really looks like a gem too.
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/selectedworksse01ephrgoog">http://www.archive.org/details/selected ... 01ephrgoog</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/selectworksseph00morrgoog">http://www.archive.org/details/selectwo ... 00morrgoog</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/selectworksseph01morrgoog">http://www.archive.org/details/selectwo ... 01morrgoog</a><!-- m -->

6) Of course Murdock's translation-versions, both 1852 and the 1909 re-print with expanded notes.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/newtestamentorbo1858murd">http://www.archive.org/details/newtestamentorbo1858murd</a><!-- m -->

7) Various Aramaic grammars, some focussing on the Eastern dialect specifically. I am really liking "Elements of Syriac Grammar by an Inductive Method" by robert Wilson,
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/elementsofsyriac00wilsrich">http://www.archive.org/details/elements ... 00wilsrich</a><!-- m -->

Uhleman's Syriac Grammar (translated from German into English)
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/uhlemannssyriacg00uhlerich">http://www.archive.org/details/uhlemann ... 00uhlerich</a><!-- m -->

and most intriguing of them all is a title by Arthur Maclean: "Grammar of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac As Spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, North West Persia and the Plain of Mosul. With Notices of the Vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu Near Mosul."
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/adictionarydial00maclgoog">http://www.archive.org/details/adiction ... 00maclgoog</a><!-- m -->

All these things are FULL VIEW books, and there are many more I could comment on. For now, all you guys have to do if you want to see this treaure trove is type "Syriac" in the Google Book search engine.

Enjoy and happy hunting!

And I (sami) will add Eastern Daily offices (nestorian)
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029361205">http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029361205</a><!-- m -->

The Aramaic origin of the Fourth Gospel (1922) C.F Burney
http://www.archive.org/details/aramaicor...00burnrich

The words of Jesus considered in the light of post-Biblical Jewish writings and the Aramaic language : authorized English version by D. M. Kay (1902)
http://www.archive.org/details/wordsofje...00dalmrich

(Judge)
For those interested there is (apparently) and online copy of Burkitts book, Ephrems quotations from the gospel . Nothing I could see there was too convincing that Ephrem quoted the OS, although again I only briefly perused it. However if Ephrem is just paraphrasing and occasionally has a word or two that agree with or is closer to the OS, then this would fit nicely with the OS being the product of Rabbula.
The book is also interesting to see the reasoning used by Burkitt to wrongly argue that Rabbula produced the peshitta.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org/details/sephraimsquotati00burkuoft">http://www.archive.org/details/sephraim ... 00burkuoft</a><!-- m -->

This list with its links are not comprehensive.
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#2
Excellent resources and links, Sami and Andrew.

I am wondering if anyone has any insights on the "assyrianlanguage.com" link, from Alan Aldawood. It looks to be a very useful guide on Aramaic grammar; but appears to be archived, very slow in loading, and no longer active. Unfortunate, it seems, that it is no longer active.
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#3
Thanks

Any suggestions and I will just put them on the list, this might be better off somewhere where it is more visible for newcomers. Any ideas?
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Sami Rabia Wrote:Thanks

Any suggestions and I will just put them on the list, this might be better off somewhere where it is more visible for newcomers. Any ideas?

A couple of things I came across. I really dont know if they will fit in the list though.

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