Hugo Oderberg’s The Aramaic Portions of Bereshit Rabba

Basic Verb ErrorsThis is a page from “The Aramaic Portions of Bereshit Rabba – With Grammar of Galilæan Aramaic” (vol 2) by Hugo Oderberg. Published in 1939 in English (originally published in German), it is currently the most complete grammar of Galilean Aramaic that exists.

However, Oderberg was not aware of the corrupt state of the manuscripts he was working from, and as a result fell victim to documenting incorrect forms, sometimes as the primary entries in his grammar tables.

All of the red highlights indicate the serious mistakes he made… and there are a lot of them.

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