SEMITIC PHILOLOGY

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: MARCO MORIGGI

Expected Learning Outcomes

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) Knowledge of the most important issues related to the topic “Middle Aramaic”; 2) knowledge and comprehension of cultural phenomena related to Northern Mesopotamia in Late Antiquity (1st-7th cent. AD); 3) development of advanced reading and interpretative skills of poetic texts in Syriac in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. (Dublin Descriptors 1, 2, 3). (Dublin Descriptors 2nd cycle qualification). 4) communication skills: development of effective communication skills in order to share knowledge with both specialist and non-specialist audience; 5) learning skills: development of learning skills enabling the student to work in full or almost full autonomy.

Course Structure

Class lectures

Lessons will be taught in English

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory.

Detailed Course Content

1) Edessa (1 CFU): Syriac in Late-Antique Aramaic continuum.

2) History of Mar Yahballaha e Rabban Sauma (5 CFU).

Textbook Information

- A. Bausi et al. (eds.), Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies. An Introduction (Hamburg: Verlag Tredition, 2015), 252-266, 435-439.

- P.G. Borbone (ed.), History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sauma (Hamburg: Verlag Tredition, 2021), 1-52, 69-79, 96-107, 111-119, 143-159, 187-229.

- A. Rigolio, Syriac, in J.B. Lande & D. Feeney (eds.), How Literatures Begin (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021), 167-190.

- T. Muraoka, Classical Syriac (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005, 88 p.).

Texts are found in the STUDIUM web platform (access reserved to students).

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral examinations will consist in a discussion of the contents of the course aimed at checking knowledge, reading skills of the texts and contextualization of their contents in the respective historical and linguistic frameworks.

Exams’ typology may be subject to change according to emergencies and/or other concurring events.
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