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Seminar Akkadian 2: Babylonian omens

Course
2019-2020

Admission requirements

Seminar Akkadian 1

Description

Reading of omens from the Old Babylonian period and their religious and historical context.

Course objectives

Knowledge of
The Old Babylonian language and cuneiform
The Old Babylonian period
History and culture of Babylonia

Transliterating cuneiform
Analysing and translating Akkadian from the Old Babylonian period
Use of dictionaries, sign lists and hand books

Timetable This will be completed by the Administration

The timetable is available on the [Name programme website](URL Roosterpagina opleiding)

Mode of instruction

  • Seminar

Course Load

Total course load 5 EC x 28 hours= 140 hours

  • Lectures: 13x2 = 26 h

  • Preparation tutorials: 12x4 = 48 h

  • Assignment(s): 20 h

  • Preparation exam: 44 h

  • Exam(s): 2 h

Assessment method

Assessment

Oral presentation (20%)
Written examination with short open questions (80%)

To complete the final mark, please take notice of the following:
the final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average

Weighing

Presentation (20%)
Written examination (80%)

Resit

Resit: written examination (100%)

inspection and feedback

How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.

Blackboard

Blackboard will be used for:

  • communication

Reading list

*Albrecht Goetze, ‘Historical Allusions in Old Babylonian Omen Texts’. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 1 (1947) 253-265 (UB online)

  • Ulla Susanne Koch, ‘Sheep and Sky: Systems of Divinatory Interpretation’. In: K. Radner en E. Robson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. UB online: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199557301.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199557301-e-21

  • Course material will be provided by the teacher.

Registration

Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website

Contact

Dr. J.G. Dercksen