SEMITIC PHILOLOGY

L-OR/07 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARCO MORIGGI


Learning Objectives

1) Knowledge of the most relevant contents and methodologies of Semitic epigraphy; 2) groundings of Aramaic epigraphy from Mesopotamia (Late Antiquity, 1st-3rd cent. AD); 3) development of reading skills of epigraphic texts in Hatran Aramaic language in diachronic perspective. (Dublin Descriptors 1, 2, 3). http://ecahe.eu/w/index.php/Dublin_Descriptors


Course Structure

Class lectures

Lessons will be taught in English



Detailed Course Content

1) Introduction to Semitic Epigraphy (1 CFU): history of scholarship, a geographical and historical overview on epigraphic Semitic languages.

2) Reading Hatran Aramaic (5 CFU): transliteration, translation and comment of an anthology of Hatran Aramaic texts (Middle Aramaic, 1st-3rd cent. AD). Further discussion will take place about their relationship with the archaeological context.



Textbook Information

- J.F. Healey, Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, pp. 1-51, 276-310.

- F.A. Pennacchietti, ‘Benedizione o maledizione? A proposito dell’iscrizione aramaica n. 24 di Hatra (Iraq)’, «Folia Orientalia» 16 (1975), pp. 57-64.

- M. Moriggi, ‘Recent Studies in Hatran Aramaic Texts’, «Mesopotamia» 45 (2010), pp. 123-132.

- H. Gzella, ‘Assur, Hatra, and the Rest of Eastern Mesopotamia’, in Idem, A Cultural History of Aramaic, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2015, pp. 271-275.

 

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All the books listed in the program can be consulted in the Library.




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