Phoenician (seminar)

Language

French

Prerequisites

To have followed courses at Bachelor level in a Semitic language such as Akkadian, Hebrew or Aramaic.

Main themes

Study of the Phoenician language.
Alternating with LGLOR 2711 (Ugaritic), the course deals with the following themes:
1. An introduction to the Phoenician script;
2. Vocabulary and the specificities of the Phoenician grammar;
3. Translation of texts accompanied by a philological commentary

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of this course, the student will be capable to read, translate and analyse texts of average difficulty. In order to achieve this goal, he will have been introduced to Phoenician script, and will have acquired a basic vocabulary.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

Amongst the western Semitic languages, Phoenician is the language spoken from the 12th century B.C. in what is now the Lebanon (Byblos, Tyre and Sidon) and the later in Carthage (Punic).
The course deals with the important inscriptions especially Ahiram, Yehimlik, Kilamuwa  Karatepe, Yehawmilk, Tabnit, Eshmunazar.

Teaching methods

This is not a course of lectures, the students prepare texts which are discussed during the course with the grammatical points highlighted.

Evaluation methods

The evaluation of the students is continuous, but there is an oral exam at the end of the year on the reading and translation of a text seen during the year, as well as justification of grammar points.

Other information

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Bibliography

- J. Hoftijzer et K. Jongeling, Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions, Leyde-New York, 1995.
- J. Friedrich, W. Röllig et M.G. Amadasi Guzzo, Phönizisch-punische Grammatik, Rome, 1999.

Faculty or entity

GLOR