Marcus Jastrow

Marcus Jastrow

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi… (1903)

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Portrait of Marcus Jastrow Marcus Jastrow,  A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi… (1903)

“ The Jewish literature here spoken of is specifically indigenous, in which respect it is unlike the Syriac literature contemporary with it, which is mainly Christian, and as such was influenced, not only in thought but also in language, by the Greek and Latin tongues of the religious teachers of a people itself not free from foreign admixtures. Foreign influences came to Jewish literature merely through the ordinary channel of international intercourse. It is for this reason, if for no other, that the Jewish literature of post-Biblical days down to the ninth century may be called original. ”
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Portrait of Marcus Jastrow Marcus Jastrow,  A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi… (1903)

“ The Hebrew and Aramaic of the Talmudic period had little to learn from a people which after the close of the Talmudic era became the world's teacher.
The difficulties besetting the study of Talmud and Midrash will be overcome in the degree in which modern scholars will take it up for philological and archaeological purposes as adjuncts of those who are too much engrossed in its practical and doctrinal side to allow themselves time for what seems to them unessential. ”
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Portrait of Marcus Jastrow Marcus Jastrow,  A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi… (1903)

“ Short vowels, except in cases of heavy accumulations of consonants, are most frequently ignored. This omission of vowels, congenial as it is to the Semitic spirit, means a loss of soul to the Aryan words, and offers difficulties not easily overcome.
The laws of transliteration of Greek and Latin loanwords are exhaustively treated in Samuel Krauss, „Griechische und Lateinische Lehnwörter in Talmud, &c." (Berlin, S. Calvary & Co., 1898) . It is to be regretted that the proclivity to find Latin and Greek in words indisputably Semitic has led the author into a labyrinth of fatal errors. ”
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