DIDACTIC UNIT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Master's Degree in European and Extra-European Languages and Culture
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year
Master's Degree in European and Extra-European Languages and Culture
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year
SEMITIC PHILOLOGY
L-OR/07 - 9 CFU - 2° Semester
Teaching Staff
ALFREDO CRISCUOLOLearning Objectives
The course aims to consolidate the language and communication skills acquired in previous years through the study of a semitic language and the code switching in different social contexts.
Detailed Course Content
A specific ancient Semitic language is closely examined, by reading a fair selection of texts of different typologies with a careful philological analysis.
In the a. year 2016/2017 the course will be on Epigraphic Mandaic.
Textbook Information
1) Ch.G. Häberl, The production and reception of a Mandaic incantation, in Ch. G. Häberl (a c.), Afroasiatic studies in memory of Robert Hetzron, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2009, 130-148.
2) E.M. Yamauchi, Mandaic incantation texts (AOS 49), New Haven: AOS, New Haven 1967.
Open in PDF format Versione in italiano