| CODE | NES2021 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Readings in Akkadian | ||||||||||||
| 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 will introduce students of Akkadian to a variety of text types in cuneiform writing, transcription, and transliteration. In this way, students will be able to engage directly with a variety of cuneiform primary sources such as historical texts, mythological narratives, imperial administrative documents, legal texts, omens, divinatory writings, and literary compositions. Study-Unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to improve the students' knowledge of cuneiform cultures in general and of the Akkadian language in particular. This will be done using a variety of textual genres from the first millennium BCE. Students will engage with and read closely different text types as well as learn the most appropriate way of using these sources to construct knowledge about cuneiform cultures. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify high frequency occurrence cuneiform signs in context; - parse intermediate to advanced Akkadian grammar; - analyse a variety of textual genres from both philological and critical perspectives; - identify more complex signs and how to interpret them. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - read and interpret Akkadian primary sources in transcription, transliteration, and in cuneiform; - translate edited texts from Akkadian to English; - explain the context of production, audience, and message of the studied texts; - answer questions related to the content of the texts; - discuss intermediate to advanced level Akkadian grammar and philology through a variety of textual compositions. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Black, J., A. George, N. Postgate. 2000. A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz. - Huehnergard, J. 2011. A Grammar of Akkadian, 3rd Edition. Harvard Semitic Studies. [PJ3251 .H84 2011]. - Labat, R. 1988. Manuel d’épigraphie akkadienne: signes, syllabaire, idéogrammes, 6th Edition. Paris. - Ungand, Arthur. 1996. Akkadian grammar. Edited by Lubor Matouš, Translated by Harry A. Hoffner, 5th corr. ed. Atlanta, Ga., Scholars Press. [PJ 3251.U613]. Recommended: - Abusch, T. 2015 The Anti-Witchcraft Series Maqlû: A Student Edition and Commentary. Helsinki, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project. - George, A.R. 2003. The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, 2 vols. Oxford, Oxford University Press. [PJ 3771. G5 G46 2003]. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-Requisite Study-units: NES2019 and NES2020 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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