![]() Lambdin’s grammar is still an excellent one, and if you’ve ever used any of his other teaching grammars such as his excellent Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (London, 1971), Introduction to Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez) (Missoula MO, 1978), or Introduction to the Gothic Language (Eugene OR, 2006), you should have a pretty good idea his approach of incremental but rigorous learning of paradigms and syntactic structures.īut, one of the issues with Lambdin’s Introduction to Sahidic Coptic nowadays is that it is a little bit dated in terms of the most recent views in the grammatical description of Coptic (and earlier Egyptian). Lambdin’s Introduction to Sahidic Coptic (Macon GA, 1983). When I first learned, and this was in Fall 2007 if I recall correctly, and we learned with Thomas O. ![]() ![]() ![]() My previous experience with Coptic was learning it around twelve years ago now when it was offered as a one-off course offering at the University of Alberta during my undergraduate time, and being a massive language nerd, I simply could not say no. ![]()
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