| CODE | HBW2011 | ||||||
| TITLE | Biblical and Jewish Aramaic | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit offers an introduction to the grammar of biblical and Jewish Aramaic. Lectures will cover the basic elements of various Aramaic dialects, and students will translate a number of sentences and short passages extracted from the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targumim, and rabbinic literature. Study-unit Aims: - To offer an introduction to the grammar of biblical and Jewish Aramaic; - To train students to read and translate short texts in Aramaic adapted from the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targumim, and rabbinic literature. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify, describe, and analyze grammatical elements of biblical and Jewish Aramaic; - Read and translate short texts in Aramaic adapted from the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targumim, and rabbinic literature. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Integrate their knowledge of Aramaic with their knowledge of biblical Hebrew; - Compare and contrast different Semitic languages; - Acquire insights into a new language and a new worldview. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Grammars: Bar-Asher Siegal, E. 2013 Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. Muenster: Ugarit-Verlag. Greenspahn, F. E. 2007 An Introduction to Aramaic. Corrected 2nd edn. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature. Muraoka, T. 2011 A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic. Leuven: Peeters. Muraoka, T. 2015 A Biblical Aramaic Reader: With an Outline Grammar. Leuven: Peeters. Muraoka, T. and Porten, B. 2014 A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic. 2nd revised edition. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature. Pelt, M. V. van 2011 Basics of Biblical Aramaic. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. Rosenthal, F. 2006 A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic. 7th expanded edn., Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Schuele, A. 2012 An Introduction to Biblical Aramaic. Louiseville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. Stevenson, W. B. 1999 Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic. Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers. Dictionaries: Brown, F., Driver, S. R., and Briggs, C. A. 1906 The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Peabody, MS: Hendrickson Publishers (a 2003 reprint of the 1906 edition with corrections of the errors and misprints in that edition). Cook, E. C. 2015. Dictionary of Qumran Aramaic. Indiana: Eisenbrauns. Jastrow, M. 2005 A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, Peabody, MS: Hendrickson Publishers. Koehler, L. and Baumgartner, W. 2001 The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament,.2 vols. Leiden: Brill (translated and edited under the supervision of M. E. J. Richardson). |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-units: NES1002, NES1003 | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Dennis Mizzi |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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