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Basics of Biblical Aramaic: Complete Grammar, Lexicon, and Annotated Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

There are 269 verses in the Old Testament written in Aramaic, not in Hebrew. Most of the verses are found in Daniel and Ezra. Basics of Biblical Aramaic follows the same easy-to-understand style found the widely used Basics of Biblical Hebrew and includes everything you need to learn biblical Aramaic. This book is designed for those who already have a working knowledge of biblical Hebrew.

3.6 The Daghesh and Syllabification. The Daghesh Lene occurs only in a begadkephat consonant in order to distinguish between the hard and soft pronunciation values (BBA 1.3). The Daghesh Lene does not affect syllabification. The Daghesh Forte doubles the pronunciation of a consonant and may appear in any consonant except the gutturals and ר (BBA 2.12.2). The presence of the Daghesh Forte does effect syllabification because it doubles the consonant in which it appears. Note that neither the Daghesh
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