SEMITIC PHILOLOGY

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
FILOLOGIA SEMITICA SP.
Course code
FM0300 (AF:308199 AR:170466)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
L-OR/07
Period
3rd Term
Where
VENEZIA
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The course is part of the teaching activities that characterise the Master Degree in Ancient Civilisations: Literature, History and Archaeology (Archaeological curriculum). It aims at guiding the student to master the philological and methodological skills to develop independent research in the field of ancient Near Eastern history. The student will be required to practice them by writing a scientific article on a topic related to the course, assigned by the teacher.
The student at the end of the course will master the philological and methodological skills to develop independent research in the field of Semitic Philology and ancient Near Eastern history, practicing them by writing a piece of scientific research on a topic related to the course, assigned by the teacher.
It may be helpful to have some notions of the History of the Ancient Near East and at least a basic knowledge of one Semitic language.
This course is devoted to the epigraphic decumentation of Ugarit, a Late Bronze city on the Syrian coast flourished between the 14th and the 13th century BC. A general sketch of the Ugaritic Language will be provided, along with an information on the history of the alphabetic script and the history of the Ugaritic Archives. In the second part of the course we will read a selection of economic, epistolographic and literary texts in Ugaritic language.
P. Bordreuil - D. Pardee, A Manual of Ugaritic: Linguistic (Studies in Ancient West Semitic 3), Winona Lake, IN 46590: Eisenbraun's, Inc. 2009
J. Huehnergard, An Introduction to Ugaritic, Hendrickson Publishers 2012
- notes and materials from the classes
- class discussion on selected topics
- written assignement
Presentation of the subject by the teacher and discussion in class. Handouts will be distributed to the students, concerning texts to be discussed.
Italian
Semitic Philology sp. deals with epigraphic documents concerning one specific Semitic Language. For those students who are interested in a comparative sketch of Semitic languages it is advisable to attend the Semitic Philology course given by Prof. Eleonora Cussini in the framework of the bachelor's program in "Languages, Culture and Society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa."


For students attending this year's course it is also advisable to follow prof. Alessandra Gilibert's class in Archaeology of Levant, which deals with Ugarit and other contemporary sites.
written and oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 10/08/2019