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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.

1. Perfect. The Perfect (or suffix) conjugation is identified by a set a Perfect sufformatives used to indicate person, gender, and number (e.g., כְּתַ֫בְנָא “we wrote” 1cp). The Perfect conjugation is used to express a completed action or state of being. The completed (or perfective) aspect of the Perfect conjugation is well suited for describing past actions, and so a past tense English translation is common with this verbal form. However, it is important to remember that the completed (or perfective)
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