This up-to-date grammar of Egyptian Aramaic of the middle of the first millennium BCE is meant to replace P. Leander's grammar of 1928, but also has a substantial section on syntax, which was totally lacking in Leander's grammar. The grammar is based on a much greater amount of texts than is the case with Leander's grammar, but also on an edition of texts incorporating a personal fresh study of them as presented in Porten and Yardeni's "Textbook of Aramaic Texts from Ancien Egypt" (1986).

Takamitsu Muraoka, Ph.D. (1970) in Hebrew, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at the State University of Leiden, The Netherlands. His past publications deal with the Hebrew/Aramaic/Syriac linguistics and the ancient versions of the Old Testament; e.g. "Emphatic Words and Structures of Biblical Hebrew" ("Jerusalem/Leiden"), "Classical Syriac for Hebraists" ("Wiesbaden," 1987), P. Jouon - T. Muraoka "A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew" ("Rome," 1993) and "A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint " ("Leuven," 2003). Bezalel Porten, Ph.D. (1964) in Jewish History, Columbia University, is Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications focus on the ancient Egyptian Aramaic texts, and include "Archives from Elephantine" ("Berkeley," 1968) and, jointly with A. Yardeni, "Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, 4 vols." ("Jerusalem," 1986-)."