Admission requirements
None
Description
This course will give students the opportunity to engage with Hebrew and Moabite inscriptions from drawings, photographs and the Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden. Students will engage with changes in writing systems, orthography and genre. Students will also engage with the history of scholarship on epigraphy written in Hebrew and other Norhwest Semitic languages in the first millennium BCE.
Students will acquire a solid basis of the writing system(s) that will enable them to read Hebrew and Moabite inscriptions and interpret them in their broader cultural and historical context. This will given students the unique opportunity to encounter the culture of the Southern Levant through texts written there and which—unlike biblical texts—have survived without a long history of textual transmission and change.
Course objectives
Knowledge and Insight
Knowledge of the Palae-Hebrew, Moabite and closely related Alphabets
Good understanding of the grammar and orthography of these texts and how they evolve
Familiarity with the apparatus (main grammars, dictionaries and text editions)
SkillGive a grammatical analysis of Hebrew, Moabite and related inscriptions
Analyse and Interpret these texts in their historical, archaeological and linguistic contexts
Reconstructing texts that
Use of digital tools to further the study of these inscriptions
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Assessment method
- Participation
- Essay Proposal
- 5,000 word essay
- Drawing of invented Hebrew or Moabite inscription with short reflection
Weighing
10% Participation
10% Essay Proposal
50% 5,000 word essay
30% Drawing of invented Hebrew or Moabite inscription with short reflection
Resit
Inspection and feedback
Reading list
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Registration À la carte education, Contract teaching and Exchange
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of À la carte education (without taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of Contract teaching (with taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
For the registration of exchange students contact Humanities International Office.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Arsenaal.