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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Hebrew Language
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Adina Moshavi
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday 12:15-13:15 or by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Adina Moshavi
Course/Module description:
We will learn selected topics in Biblical Hebrew syntax from the synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Students will carry out guided research and present their findings.
Course/Module aims:
To teach selected topics in Biblical Hebrew syntax, and to acquaint students with a methodology and digital and print research tools in this field
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Be able to understand the scholarly debates on a variety of topics in Biblical Hebrew syntax and evaluate each position’s advantages and disadvantages
2. Be able to carry out a research project on Biblical Hebrew using a variety of digital and print resources
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
frontal lectures, class exercises in groups
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction
2. Definiteness part 1
3. Definiteness part 2
4. Use/nonuse of אֶת
5. Apposition vs coordination in the noun phrase (2 classes)
6. Numerical phrases part 1
7. Numerical phrases part 2
8. Left dislocation part 1
9. Guided research
10. Left dislocation part 2
11. Student presentations
Required Reading:
1. Ehrensvärd, M. 2000. “Determination of the noun in Biblical Hebrew”. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 14(2): 301-314.
2. Bekins, P. 2013. “Non-Prototypical Uses of the Definite Article in Biblical Hebrew”. Journal of Semitic Studies 58(2), pp. 225-240.
3. Bekins, P. 2014. Transitivity and Object Marking in Biblical Hebrew: An Investigation of the Object Preposition 'et. Harvard Semitic Studies. Win s://ona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 17-58.
4. Scheumann, J.R. 2020. A syntactic analysis of phrasal coordination in Biblical Hebrew. Doctoral dissertation, University of the Free State, 169-221.
5. Moshavi, Adina. 2021. “Expressing the Day of the Month in Biblical Hebrew: A Diachronic Perspective.” Journal for Semitics 30 (2): 1-17.
6. Miller-Naudé, C.L. and Naudé, J.A., 2021. “Differentiating Left Dislocations Constructions in Biblical Hebrew”.
7. Miller-Naudé, C.L. and Naudé, J.A., 2021. Differentiating Left Dislocation Constructions in Biblical Hebrew. New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, ed. A. D. Hornkohl and G. Khan, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 617-640.
8. Westbury, J., 2016. A functional profile of Left Dislocation in Biblical Hebrew. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 50:65-90.
Additional Reading Material:
will be supplied during the semester
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 80 %
Presentation / Poster Presentation / Lecture/ Seminar / Pro-seminar / Research proposal 20 %
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