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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Linguistics
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Eran Cohen
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wed. 1630-1730
Teaching Staff:
Prof Eran Cohen
Course/Module description:
Reading in the law collections of Old Babylonian, focusing on the syntactic structure and the verbal system
Course/Module aims:
Learning to recognize the problematics involved in the study off the text and its linguistic description
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. be able to interpret correctly the texts
2. know better what a generic text means linguistically
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Textual course: primary and secondary readings
Course/Module Content:
Syntactic examination of the language of the Old Babylonian law collections, formulation of its unique nature, and characterizing the genre
Required Reading:
Roth, M. 1997. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor2 [SBL Writings from the Ancient World], Atlanta: Scholars Press.
Additional Reading Material:
Akatsuka, N. 1986. “Conditionals are Discourse-Bound”, in E.C. Traugott et alii, eds., On Conditionals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 333–351.
Athanasiadou, A. and Dirven, R. 1996. “Typology of if-Clauses”, in E. H. Casad, ed., Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods. The Hague: De Gruyter, 609–654.
Snitzer-Reilly, J. 1986. “The acquisition of Temporals and Conditionals”, in E.C. Traugott et alii, eds., On Conditionals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 309–331.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 50 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 50 %
preparation
Additional information:
"Other" means preparing the required text to the lesson, usually interpreting~translating~ analyzing the text, occasionally additional assignments.
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