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Canaan (Biblical Israel): Syriac Language

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

Syriac Dictionaries

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Costaz, Louis. Dictionnaire syriaque-francais. Beyrouth : Dar el-Machreq, 1986. Call #= PJ5490 .C6 1986

Goshen-Gottstein, Moshe H. (Moshe Henry), 1925-. A Syriac-English glossary. With etymological notes. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1970. Call #= PJ5491 .G68

Kiraz, George Anton. Lexical tools to the Syriac New Testament. Sheffield, England : JSOT Press, c1994. Call #= PJ5440 .K573 1994

Margoliouth, Jessie Payne Smith, d. 1933. Supplement to the Thesaurus syriacus of R. Payne Smith, S.T.P. / collected and arranged by J.P. Margoliouth. Hildesheim ; New York : Georg Olms, 1981. Call #= PJ5493 .P392 1981

Payne Smith, R. (Robert), 1818-1895. A compendious Syriac dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1967. Call #= PJ5491 .P3 1903a

Payne Smith, R. (Robert), 1818-1895. Thesaurus syriacus. Hildesheim ; New York : Georg Olms, 1999. Call #= PJ5493 .P39 1999

Syriac Grammars

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Brockelmann, Carl, 1868-1956. Syrische Grammatik mit Paradigmen, Literatur, Chrestomathie und Glossar. Leipzig, VEB Verlag Enzyklopadie, 1968. Call #= PJ5423 .B7 1968

Costaz, Louis. Grammaire syriaque. Beyrouth : Dar al-Machreq, 1997. Call #= PJ5421 .C67 1997

Duval, Rubens, 1839-1911. Traite de grammaire syriaque. Amsterdam, Philo Press, 1969. Call #= PJ5421 .D8 1881a

Frey, Albert, 1955-. Petite grammaire syriaque. Fribourg, Suisse : Editions Universitaires ; Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984. Call #= PJ5423 .F73 1984

Kiraz, George Anton. Lexical tools to the Syriac New Testament. Sheffield, England : JSOT Press, c1994. Call #= PJ5440 .K573 1994

Kiraz, George Anton. The new Syriac primer : an introduction to the Syriac language with a CD / George Anton Kiraz. 1st Gorgias Press ed. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2007. Call #= PJ5421 .K57 2007

Muraoka, T. Classical Syriac : a basic grammar with a chrestomathy. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997. Call #= PJ5423 .M87 1997

Noldeke, Theodor, 1836-1930. Compendious Syriac grammar / by Theodor Noldeke ; with a table of characters by Julius Eutling ; translated from the second and improved German edition by James A. Crichton.  And with an appendix, The handwritten additions in Theodor Noldeke's personal copy / edited by Anton Schall ; translated by Peter T. Daniels. Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns, 2001. Call #= PJ5423 .N6813 2001

Thackston, W. M. (Wheeler McIntosh), 1944-. Introduction to Syriac : an elementary grammar with readings from Syriac literature. Bethesda, Md. : IBEX Publishers, c1999. Call #= PJ5423 .T53 1999

Uhlemann, Friedrich Gottlob, 1792-1864. Uhlemann's Syriac grammar. New York, D. Appleton, 1855. Call # PJ5423 .U45 1855

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