Aramaic A

Teacher(s)

Tavernier Jan;

Language

French
> English-friendly

Prerequisites

LGLOR1641 or LGLOR1642

Main themes

Mastery of detailed notions of the grammar of Aramaic.
Alternating with LGLOR2644, this course deals with the following themes :
•    reading and translating Imperial Aramaic texts;
•    possibly, reading and translation of (parts of) Targumic texts;
•    possibly, reading and translation of (parts of) Samaritan Aramaic texts.

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 Imperial Aramaic texts discovered in Egypt, in Samaria, in Bactria and in Persepolis

• study of the Palestinian Targum 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

Written exam (transliteration, analysis and translation of two Imperial Aramaic, Palestinian Targumic or Samaritan Aramaic texts).

Other information

English-friendly course: course taught in French but offering facilities in English.

Online resources

http://cal.huc.edu/: The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon.

Bibliography

- G. Dalman, Grammatik des jüdisch-palästinischen Aramäisch nach den Idiomen des Palästinischen Talmud, des Onkelostargum und Prophetentargum und der jerusalemischen Targume, Leipzig, 1905 (surtout pour les tableaux).
- J. Hoftijzer - K. Jongeling, A Dictionary of North-West Semitic Inscriptions, Leiden, 1995.
- M. Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumin, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, New York, 1950.
- B. Porten & A. Yardeni, Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, Winona Lake, 1986-1999.
- B. Porten & A. Yardeni, Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Winona Lake, 2015-2018.
- B. Porten & T. Muraoka, A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten 32), Leiden, 1998.
- T. Muraoka, An Introduction to Egyptian Aramaic (Textbooks of Near Eastern Languages. Aramaic 1 / Lehrbuch orientalischer Sprachen 1), Münster, 2012.
- J. Naveh & Sh. Shaked, Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria (Fourth Century BCE) : from the Khalili Collections, London, 2012.
- M. Sokoloff, A Dictionary of Judean Aramaic, Ramat-Gan, 2003.
- W.B. Stevenson, Grammar of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Oxford, 1962.
- A. Tal, Samaritan Aramaic (Lehrbuch orientalischer Sprachen III/2), Münster, 2013.

Faculty or entity

EHAC