Classical Ethiopic

“For years now the reviewer has been tutoring students using Tropper’s Alt thiopisch as a reference grammar alongside T. O. Lambdin’s Introduction to Classical Ethiopic (Geʿez) (Missoula 1978; or its 2002 Italian adaptation by O. Raineri), whose step-by-step presentation of the grammar and copious graded exercises make teaching and learning Classical Ethiopic a pleasant task. This translation and adaptation by Hasselbach-Andee will equally serve as a solid reference work.”

—Augustinus Gianto Orientalia

“For years now the reviewer has been tutoring students using Tropper’s Alt thiopisch as a reference grammar alongside T. O. Lambdin’s Introduction to Classical Ethiopic (Geʿez) (Missoula 1978; or its 2002 Italian adaptation by O. Raineri), whose step-by-step presentation of the grammar and copious graded exercises make teaching and learning Classical Ethiopic a pleasant task. This translation and adaptation by Hasselbach-Andee will equally serve as a solid reference work.”

—Augustinus Gianto Orientalia

“A useful introductory grammar to Ethiopic.”

—Michael Waltisberg Bibliotheca Orientalis

“For almost two decades, Josef Tropper’s Altäthiopisch has been the standard grammar for Gəˁəz. This English translation by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee is even more useful thanks to the addition of the Ethiopic script throughout. For students and scholars alike, Classical Ethiopic is the best grammar of Gəˁəz available in any language.”

—Aaron M. Butts, author of Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in Its Greco-Roman Context

“[This book] provides invaluable access in the English language to a methodical and detailed study of Classical Ethiopic that has been successfully and appropriately updated and revised to ensure its continued relevance for decades to come.”

—Alexander McCarron Journal of Jewish Studies

Josef Tropper is Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is the author of Altäthiopisch: Grammatik des Geʽez mit Übungstexten und Glossar and Ugaritische Grammatik: Zweite, stark überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage.

Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee is Associate Professor of Comparative Semitics at The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. She is the author of Sargonic Akkadian: A Historical and Comparative Study of the Syllabic Texts and Case in Semitic: Roles, Relations, and Reconstruction .