Elias Riggs, A.M.
A manual of the Chaldee language;
containing a Chaldee grammar,
chiefly from the German of Professor G. B. Winer; a chrestomathy,
consisting of selections from the targums, and including the whole
of the Biblical Chaldee, with notes; and a vocabulary, adapted to
the chrestomathy. With an appendix on the Rabbinical character and
style
Boston:
Perkins and Marvin, 1832
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CONTENTS
Title
Preface by professor Stuart
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Introduction. Chaldee Language and Literature
GRAMMAR.
PART I. - Orthography and Orthoepy.
Consonants
Vowels
Dagesh
Mappiq
Accents
Tone-syllable
Of reading unpointed text
PART II. - Etymology.
Derivation and inflection of words generally
Mutations of consonants
Vowel changes
PRONOUNS; personal and possessive
Suffix pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Relative and interrogative
VERBS; derivation and inflection
Conjugations
Moods and tenses
Inflection of the Regular Verb
Notes on the Par. of the Regular Verb
Personal inflection of the participles
Unfrequent Conjugations
Quadriliteral Verbs
Verbs with Gutturals
Regular Verbs with Suffix-pronouns
IRREGULAR VERBS
Verbs Pe Nun
Ayin doubled
PeYodh
Pe Aleph
Ayin Vav and Ayin Yodh
Lamedh Aleph
doubly anomalous
defective, and mixed forms
irregular, with suffix pronouns
NOUNS; derivation
gender and number
states; emphatic
Declension
Dec. I. II.
Dec. III
Dec. IV. V.
Dec. VI. VII. VIII.
Dec. IX.
Irregular nouns
ADJECTIVES
Numerals
PARTICLES; adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
PART III.—Syntax.
PRONOUNS; personal
Used instead of the subst. verb
Pronouns; relative
interrogative
reflexive, how designated
indefinite
demonstrative
VERBS; use of the tenses
Peculiar mode of designating certain tenses
Use of the Imperative
Infinitive
Participles
Optative mood
Agreement of the verb with its subject
Impersonal verbs; how designated
Regimen of verbs
Verbs used for adverbs
Constructio praegnans
Ellipsis
NOUNS; designation of cases
Use of the cases
plural
Repetition of nouns
ADJECTIVES
comparison of
NUMERALS
PARTICLES; adverbs
Negatives
Interrogative particles
PARADIGMS of verbs, nouns, &c.
CHRESTOMATHY.
PART I.—Select sentences from the Targum of Onkelos
PART II.—Extracts from the Targums.
I. History of the fall, Gen. 3. Onkelos
II. The same, Gen. 3. Pseudo-Jonathan
III. The same, Gen. 3. Jerusalem Targum
IV. Story of a dispute between Cain and Abel, Gen. 4:8.
Jerusalem Targum
V. Marriage of Samson, Judg. 14. Jonathan
VI. Prediction of Messiah's kingdom, Ps. 2. author of the
Targum uncertain
VII. The praises of Jehovah, Ps. 8.
VIII. Parable of the vineyard, Isa. 5:1-7. Jonathan
IX. Extract from Isaiah's prediction of the Messiah, Isa.
52:13-53:2. Jonathan
X. Aphorisms of Solomon, Prov. 10:1-12. Targumist unknown
PART III. - The Biblical Chaldee.
I. Jeremiah 10:11
II. Daniel 2:4-7:28
III. Ezra 4:8-6:18
IV. Ezra 7:12-23
NOTES on Part I
on Part II
on Part III
VOCABULARY
APPENDIX A. Rabbinical Character and Style.
APPENDIX B. On the Syriac Language now spoken in the East
