| CODE | HBW3012 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Readings in Aramaic | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Oriental Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit builds on the knowledge of biblical and Jewish Aramaic covered in HBW2011. Select texts in Aramaic from the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targumim, and rabbinic literature as well as Aramaic inscriptions will be read, and various text- and historical-critical issues will be discussed. Study-unit Aims: - To strengthen students' knowledge of biblical and Jewish Aramaic covered in HBW2011; - To train students to read and translate advanced Aramaic texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targumim, and rabbinic literature as well as Aramaic inscriptions; - To train students to apply philological and historical-critical methods to the reading of ancient texts, with a focus on biblical and Jewish Aramaic literature. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Read and translate advanced Aramaic texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targumim, and rabbinic literature as well as Aramaic inscriptions; - Identify, describe, and analyze various elements of grammar and syntax typical of biblical and Jewish Aramaic; - Apply philological and historical-critical methods to the reading of ancient texts, with a focus on biblical and Jewish Aramaic literature; - Relate salient details regarding select Aramaic texts and their historical context. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Read and translate unvocalized Aramaic texts; - Use texts to reconstruct the socio-cultural, historical, and ideological contexts in which they were produced and read; - Apply the knowledge of Aramaic covered in this study-unit to learning other dialects of Aramaic, such as Syriac. 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: HBW2011, NES1001, NES1002 | |||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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