Aramaic B (Seminar)

lglor2644  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Aramaic B (Seminar)
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
15.0 h + 15.0 h
Q1

  This biannual learning unit is not being organized in 2019-2020 !

Teacher(s)
SOMEBODY;
Language
French
Prerequisites
LGLOR1641 and/or LGLOR1642.
Main themes
Mastery of detailed notions of  the grammar of Aramean.
Alternately with LGLOR2643, this course deals with the following themes:
- a commented translation of extracts of Targums, of papyri from Elephantine and of Qumran texts (15 hours of course);
- personal translation of extracts of Targums or Qumran texts (15 hours of exercises).
 
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 of translating (with a dictionary) Aramean documents found in Egypt (Hermopolis, Elephantine), at Qumran or extracts of Targums.
 

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
The course permits further and deeper study and practice of the language studied in the first cycle. The texts studied vary from year to year and come from different epochs, historical contexts and literary genres:
- study of papyri  discovered in Egypt, and of Aramean documents discovered at Qumran;
- comparison of different Aramean dialects of the first century B.C. up to the 6th century A.D. (e.g. Targums of Genesis, with analysis of the special forms of Neofiti, of the Pseudo-Jonathan, of fragmentary Palestinian Targums and of the Samaritan Targum).
 
Teaching methods
The course is not in the form of lectures: students must have prepared the texts; their preparation will be discussed and improved during the course.
Evaluation methods
Oral exam.
Other information
/
Online resources
/
Bibliography
-  M. Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumin etc.;
-  G. Dalman, Grammatik des jüdisch-palästinischen Aramäisch (surtout pour les tableaux) ;
-  J. Hoftijzer - K. Jongeling, A Dictionary of North-West Semitic Inscriptions.
Faculty or entity
GLOR


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies

Master [120] in Biblical Studies

Master [60] in Ancient Languages and Literatures : Oriental Studies