Levias, Caspar

A GRAMMAR OF ARAMAIC IDIOM CONTAINED IN THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD: WITH CONSTANT REFERENCE TO GAONIC LITERATURE [INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR]

Cincinnati; The Bloch Pub. And Printing Co., 1896. Item #31432

Original Wraps. 8vo. VI, 58 pages. 25 cm. First seperate edition. Reprinted from the American journal of Semitic languages and literatures, vol. XIII, No. 1, Chicago, Ill. “Part 1” (as noted on cover) . A larger work, with identical title, of the Grammar of Aramaic Idiom appeared in 1900 (Singerman 5791) . This edition not in Singerman. Our copy signed on wrap, gift inscription to “Rev. Dr. Louis Grossmann, With the compliments of the author”. Caspar Levias was an “American Orientalist; born in Szagarren Feb. 13, 1860; received his elementary education in Russia and his collegiate training at Columbia College, New York (A. M. ) , and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; he was fellow in Oriental languages at the former (1893-94) and fellow in Semitic languages at the latter university (1894-95) . Since 1895 Levias has been instructor at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio. His published works are as follows: ‘A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom Contained in the Babylonian Talmud, ’ Cincinnati, 1900; ‘The Justification of Zionism, ’ 1899. Besides these, Levias has published a large number of essays, chiefly on philological subjects, in ‘The American Journal of Semitic Languages’ (in which his Talmudic grammar first appeared) and in the ‘Hebrew Union College Journal. ’ (EJ 1906) Subjects: Aramaic language - Grammar. Talmud. Aramaic - Grammar. OCLC lists 6 copies. Front wrap loose, with brittle and slightly torn edges, back wrap contains torn bottom corner, internally fresh and clean. Good + condition. (AMR-39-39).

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