JEWISH LITERATURE 1

The course is part of the BA degree in "Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and Mediterranean Africa”

Students will be introduced to the Hebrew Bible as literature. Significant texts from various literary genres will be read, translated, and analysed in the Hebrew originals.

Communicating capabilities:
- capability to express and process the contents of the course and the topic of the papers in written form (in Italian or in English for non-Italian speaking students).

Learning capabilities:
- efficiently taking lecture notes in classroom;
- critically integrating different teaching materials (class notes, slides, handbooks, academic papers);
- independent, critical study of course-related topics not dealt in class;
- improving the student's capability to read and process materials in English.
- perfezionare la capacità di studiare materiali in lingua inglese.

Knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet and of Tiberian vowel signs.

Texts from the Hebrew Bible, representative of various ideologies and genres, will be read in the Hebrew originals, translated, and analysed from a linguistic, literary and historical perspective.

Anthology of texts:
A. Carrozzini, "Grammatica della lingua ebraica", Marietti 1820, Bologna, varie ristampe.

Reference handbooks (mandatory readings):
1) G. Stemberger, "Introduzione all'ebraistica", trad.ital. Morcelliana, Brescia 2013.
2) C. Grottanelli, "La religione di Israele prima dell'Esilio", in G. Grottanelli, "Ebraismo", Laterza, Roma-Bari 1999 and reprs., pp. 3-52.
3) P. Sacchi, "Il giudaismo del Secondo Tempio", in G. Grottanelli, "Ebraismo", Laterza, Roma-Bari 1999 and reprs, pp. 53-124.

Useful integrative tools:
1) L. Alonso Schökel, "Dizionario di ebraico biblico", ed. G.L. Prato, San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo 2013.
2) Translation of the Bible by the Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (CEI), version 2008 (available p.es. at <www.bibbiaedu.it>;).

Oral exam.

Students will be asked to present the notions acquired during the course. Students will be invited to go deep into a topic of their own interest and to present it during the exam.

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A. Scores in the 18-22 range will be awarded in the presence of: Sufficient knowledge and applied comprehension of the program;
B. Scores in the 23-26 range will be awarded in the presence of: Fair knowledge and applied comprehension of the program;
C. Scores in the 27-30 range will be awarded in the presence of: Good or excellent knowledge and applied comprehension of the program;
D. Honors will be awarded in the presence of the ability to reason independently about what has been learned and to make connections between the notions acquired.

Classroom lectures. The translation of the texts will be assigned as homework and checked in class.