SEMITIC PHILOLOGY

1) Knowledge of the most important issues related to the topic “Middle Aramaic” (Nabataean Aramaic, Hatran Aramaic, Palmyrene Aramaic, Syriac); 2) knowledge and comprehension of cultural phenomena related to Northern Mesopotamia in the Parthian period (3rd cent. BC - 3rd cent. AD); 3) development of advanced reading and interpretative skills of epigraphic texts in Old Syriac in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. (Dublin Descriptors 1, 2, 3). http://ecahe.eu/w/index.php/Dublin_Descriptors

Class lectures

Lessons will be taught in English

1) Edessa (1 CFU): Syriac in Late-Antique Aramaic continuum.

2) Old Syriac epigraphy: an anthology (5 CFU).

- J.F. Healey, Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, pp. 1-51, 223-275.

- J.F. Healey, ‘Syriac’, in S. Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin-Boston 2011, pp. 637-652.

- H. Gzella, “Edessa and Osrhoene: Old Syriac”, in Idem, A Cultural History of Aramaic, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2015, pp. 256-261.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

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