Rosenthal Franz A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic. Wiesbaden: Otto
Harrassowitz. 1961.
The purpose of this grammar is twofold. It is, on the one hand, to
provide the beginners with the elements of the language, and, on
the other, to prepare them for possible research in the problems of
Aramaeology.
Biblical Aramaic grammars are customarily written in the assumption
that the reader will have previously acquired a good knowledge of
Biblical Hebrew. This assumption may be correct, but it seems a
poor justification for not giving Biblical Aramaic its due as a
language in its own right. Therefore, no knowledge of Hebrew is
presupposed here.