SCHOLAR FRANZ ROSENTHAL DIES AT 88 (from the Yale Daily News).

Near Eastern Languages and Civilization professor emeritus Franz Rosenthal, a noted Arab scholar and esteemed mentor, died April 8 in Branford, Conn., after a battle with cancer. He was 88 years old.

Rosenthal, who taught at Yale from 1956 to 1985 and became a Sterling professor in 1967, published prolifically, including a "Grammar of Biblical Aramaic" and a three-volume translation of Ibn Khaldun's "Muqaddimah."

"He was a scholar of tremendous international reputation," religious studies professor Steven Fraade said.

Rosenthal was one of the premier Aramaic scholars of the twentieth century as well.