Syriac  
Description.
 
Bible
  • [Holy Scriptures: Old Testament].  London: Whitefriars Press, 1954.
  • [Syriac New Testament and Psalms].  Istanbul: United Bible Societies, 1986.
 
English Translations
  • Lamsa, George M., ed.  The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts: Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated from the Peshitta.   Philadelphia: A. J. Holman, 1957.
 
Dictionary
  • Goshen-Gottstein, M. H.  A Syriac-English Glossary, with Etymological Notes.  Based on Brockelmann's Syriac Chrestomathy.  Weisbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970.
  • Payne Smith, Robert.  A Compendious Syriac Dictionary: Founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, ed. Jessie Payne Smith.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1994; original 1903.  (see also the 1999 edition by Wipf and Stock Publishers in Eugene, Oregon)
 
Concordance
  • Jenner, K. and P. G. Borbone.  The Concordance to the Peshitta Version of the Aramaic New Testament, multiple volumes.  Leiden/New York: E. J. Brill, 1993-.
  • Kiraz, George Anton.  A Computer-Generated Concordance to the Syriac New Testament: According to the British and Foreign Bible Society's Edition, 2 vols.  New Knoxville, Ohio: American Christian Press, 1985.
  • Winter, Michael M.  A Concordance to the Peshitta Version of Ben Sira.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976.
 
Grammar
  • Brockelmann, Carl.   Syrische grammatik mit Paradigmen, Literatur, Chrestomathie und Glossar, 5th ed.  Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1938.
  • Muraoka, Takamitsu.  Classical Syriac: A Basic Grammar, Porta Linguarum Orientalium, n.s. 19.  Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997.
  • --------.  Classical Syriac for Hebraists.  Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1987.
  • Nöldeke, Theodor.   Compendious Syriac Grammar, trans. from the 2d German ed. James A. Crichton.  London: Williams & Norgate, 1904.
  • Robinson, Theodore H.   Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar, 4th ed., rev. L. H. Brockington.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1981/1962.
  • Thackston, Wheeler M.  Introduction to Syriac: An Elementary Grammar with Readings from Syriac Literature.  Bethesda, Maryland: IBEX, 1999.
  • Ungnad, Arther .   Syrische Grammatik: Mit Übungsbuch.  New York: Olms, 2001; original 1913.
 
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