66-3. ARAMAIC AND SYRIAC PART III

A

course of four lectures per week with one tutorial class throughout the year.

SYLLABUS

(i) More advanced treatment of grammar and syntax,

together with translation of unprescribed texts from both Aramaic and

^Syriac.

either(ii) Study

of the. Targum to one selected Book from the Prophets or the Hagiographa, together with a comparative study of the Targumixn to the Pentateuch. Introduction to the study of Samaritan liturgical compositions.

or (iii) Study of Syriac Biblical commentators.

(iv) Advanced Study of Patristic Texts.

BOOKS

Prescribed texts:

Тargum to Psalms. Psalms ii, viii, xxii, lxix, lxxxviii, cxviii.

either

Targum Onkelos, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, the Jerusalem Targum, and

the

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Samaritan

Targum. Portions chosen:

Genesis

i,

Exodus zv, Deuteronomy Samaritan Aranlaic Liturgical Compositions of Margah, and 'Amтап Darah.

( Texts for the above from the department.)

Sperber, A.—The

Bible in Aramaic. ( Brill,

Leiden, 1959.)

or Theodore on the Nicene Creed,

Woodbrooke Studies, ed. Mingana, A., vol. 6.

Baptism. (Carob., 1932.)

Wright,

W. Joshua, the

Stylite

Chronicle. ( C.U.P.,

1880.)

Bar

Hebraeus—Tractate on Heresies:

Patrologie

Orientalis,

vol. XIII.

Mitchell, C..

ed. Prose Refutations of Mani,

Marcion

and Bardaisan. (Texts

and Trans. Soc., 1912.)

Gibson, M. D.

—

The

Commentaries of Isho'dad on the Gospel of John. (Books

i

-x.) (Horae

Semiticae vii.) (C.U.P., 1911.)

Burkitt, F. C.—Euphemia

and the Goth.

(Williams & Norgate, 1913.) Aphraates—De

Monaсhis. (Patrologia

Syriaca, Vol. 1. ed., Graffin R.) Recommended for reference:

Kahle,

P.—The Cairo Geniza. ( New

ed., C.U.P., 1958.)

Kahl

е

,

P. Masoreten des Westens,

Bd. II. (

Кohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1930.)

Macho,

Diez—Sef arad, Vol. xv, Journal. ( Madrid,

1955.)

Lagarde, P.

de—Hagtographa Chaldake. ( Teubner,

Leipzig, 1873.) Ginsburger,

M. Das Fragmenttargum. ( Calvary,

Berlin, 1899.) Ginsburger,

^М: Рsеиdo-Jоnathan. ( Calvary,

Berlin, 1903.)

Barrett, C.

K.—The Gospel According to St. John.

An

Introduction. ( Ѕ.Р.C.К.,

1955.)

Dodd, C.

H.—The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel. ( C.U.P.,

1953.) EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

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A course of two or more lectures per week, with one seminar, throughout the year.

SYLLABUS

Options will be provided in Syriac, Aramaic, and Mandaean and Samaritan Aramaic. The overall plan will be as follows:

(i) Texts.

(a) Syriac: Study of Nestorian and Monophysite Liturgies and Homilies.

(b) Aramaic: Advanced study of the Aramaic portions of Talmud Bab]]

and Talmud Yerushalmi, and other Jewish Aramaic literature.

(c) Mandaean and. Samaritan Aramaic: Study of Mandaean and Samaritan texts, including study of original MSS.

(1) Comparative grammar and philology in the chosen option.

( iii) A special study on a topic selected from one of the foregoing fields.

BOOКS

Prescribed texts:

Either (1):

Liber

Graduum,

Patrologia Syriaca (ed. R. Graffin, Firmin-Didot, Pads, 1926.) Cols. 584-765.

Dionysies Bar Salibi—Against

the Armenians. (ed.,

A. Mingano, 1931.) Marty

^ri

um

Beati Simeonis Bar Sabbãe

Patrologie

Syriaca.

Vol. II, Cols. 714-960.

Severus of Antioch Homilq XC. Pat. Or.,

23 Fasc. 1A, pp. 120-165.

Liturgical texts from the departmental collection viz:

The Liturgies of Addai and Mari, and Theodore of Mopsuestia, eta.

or

(ii):

Selections from the

Zohar, Talmud Yerushalmi and Talmud

Babil

( Selected Tractates),

or

(moi):

Drower, E. S. Haran

Gawaita and Masbuta Dhibll

Ziwa. (Brill, Rome and Leiden, 1959.)

Drower, E.

S.—Тhe Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaean.

(Brill, Leiden, 1959.)

Мemaг

Margah, from MSS. in the department.

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Recommended for reference:

Surtevant—An Introduction to Linguistic Science. (Yale, 1947.)

Other bibliography at this stage will be considered to be the responsibility of students, as part of their initial training for research.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers. Thesis on special subject.

ETHIOPIC

A

course of two lectures per week throughout the year.

SYLLABUS

Translation from Ethiopic into English, accidence and syntax, outline of the history of South Arabic, reading of the Ethiopic Octateuch.

BOOKS

Prescribed texts. Selected from:

Dillmann, A.—Octateuchus Aethiopicus. (Leipzig.) Chrestomathia Aethiopica.

Prescribed textbooks:

As above together with:

Mercer, S. A. Ethiopic Grammar, Chrestomathy.

Praetorius, F.—Grammatica Aethiopica. (Po

rt

a Linguarum Orientalium.) Recommended for reference:

Harden, J. M.—An Introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature. (

Ѕ.Р.C.К.

) . Dictionaries:

Dillmann, A.—Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae cum Indice Latino. (New York, Ungar.)

EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper in addition to an oral test of 15 minutes.

65-1. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES PART I A course of two lectures and two seminars per week throughout the year.

SYLLABUS

Either the syllabus for the pass course with a study of the basic documents and selections from Sumerian, Ugaritic and Hebrew texts. Tuition in textual studies in the original languages is offered.

or Islam: a study of Islamic faith and institutions with their Jewish, Christian, Persian and North and South Arabian antecedents. Special study will be made of the fundamental religious and social structure of Islam. For this purpose students .will read material in the original language.

BOOKS

Prescribed books:

As for the ordinary degree plus:

Cassuto,

U. The Goddess Anath. ( Bialik Institute, Jerusalem, 1953.) Gaster, T. H.—Thespis. ( Doubleday, Anchor, 1981. )

Obermann, J.—Ugaritic Mythology. A Study of its Leading Motifs. (Yale U.P., 1948.)

Driver, G. R., and Miles, , Sir J. C. (eds.)—The Babylonian Laws. (O.U.P., 1955-8.)

Driver, G. R., and Miles, Sir J. C. (eds.)—The Assyrian Laws. (O.U.P., 1935.) Lloyd, Seton—Early Anatolia. ( Pelican, 1956.)

Pope, M. H. El in the Ugaritic Texts. ( Brill, Leiden, 1955.)

or:

Prescribed text:

Williams, J. A. ( ed. )—Islam. ( Washington Square Press, N.Y., 1963.)

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Prescribed books:

As in Option (b) of Pass course plus:

MacDonald, D. B.—The Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory. (Scпbner, N.Y., 1903.)

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

65-2. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES PART II A course of two lectures and two seminars per week throughout the year.

SYLLAВUS

History of Muslim Philosophy, together with trends in Modern Islamic Thought.

BOOKS

Prescribed books:

As for the ordinary degree plus:

Selections from Al-Ghazdli (in Arabic).

Also available for Honours, Options as for the Ordinary Degree.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

65-3. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES PART III A course of two lectures and two seminars per week throughout the year.

SYLLAВUS

The continued study of Arabic civilization, comprising literature, arts, sciences, and the development of the Islamic peoples in North Africa, Western Asia, Pakistan and the Far East, and the Arab reawakening in the modern period.

BOOKS

Prescribed books:

As for the ordinary degree plus:

Atiyah, E. S.—The Arabs. ( Penguin, ^1955.) Little, T.—Egypt. (Bann., 1958.)

Ziadeh, N. A.—Syria and Lebanon. ( Benn., 1957.) Longrigg, S. H., and Stoakes, F. Iraq. (Benn., 1955.)

Smith, W. C.—Pakistan as an Islamic State. ( Shaikh Muhammed Ashraf, Lahore, 1954.)

Wallbank, T. W.—A Short History of India and Pakistan. (New American Lib.,.

N.Y., 1958.)

Ibn Bhаldйп—Mugaddamah, 3 vols. (Routledge, 1958.) Salin, A. 'Ali—Миhãdarat fi Taňkh Al-'Arab.

Arnold, T. A., and Guillaume, A.—The Legacy of Islam. ( 0.U.P., 1931.) Hitti, P. R. Historu of the Arabs. ( 6th ed.. Macmillan, 1958.)

Also available for Honours, Options as for the Ordinary Degree.

A full list of reference books for the courses in Middle Eastern Studies will be available in the department of Middle Eastern Studies.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

67-1. BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY PART I

A course of two lectures and one seminar per week with demonstrations and practical work.

SYLLABUS

The archaeology of Palestine and adjacent lands from the Neolithic to the Iron Age with special emphasis on archaeological technique and relative chronology.

BOOKS

Prescribed texts:

kenyon, K —Excavations at Jericho. Vol. 1. (London, 1980.)

MWDLE EASTERN STUDIES Kenyon, K.—Archaeology in

the Holy Land. ( Benn., 1959.) Emery, W.

В.—Archaic Egypt. (Pelican, 1961.)

Albright, W. F.—Ths Archaeology of Palestine. (Pelican, 1949.) Wright, G. E.—Biblical Archaeology.. ( Westminster,

Рhiladерhiа, 1957.)

Garstang, J.—The Story of Jericho. (Marshall, Morgan & Scott, London, 1948.) Schaeffer, J.—Stratigraphie cómparée de l' Asie occidentale. ( 0.U.P., 1949. )

^.

Petrie, F. W. M.—Ancient Gaza I-IV. (Egyptian Exploration Soc., London,

1931-4.)

Petrie, F. W. M.-Hyksos and Israelite Cities. (Egyptian Explor. Soc. Load:, 1938.)

Bossert,

Н.—Alt-Syrien. (Wasmuth, Tubingen, 1951.)

Вагго

is, H. G.—Manuel D'Archéologie Biblique, 2 vols. (Picard, Paris, 1939.) Gurney, O.—The Hittites. (Pelican, 1959.)

Braidwood, R. Mounds in the Plain of Antioch. (Chicago U.P., 1960.) Woolley, Sir L.—A Forgotten Kingdom. (Pelican 1953.)

Franken, H. J.—

А

Primer of Old Testament Archaeology. (Brill, Leiden, 1963.) EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper. One 1X-hour paper and a practical examination

of 1%-hours.

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PART II A course of two lectures and two seminars per week throughout the year.

SYLLABUS

The archaeology of selected Palestinian sites of the Bronze and Iron Ages together with a study of ancient texts relating to their history. The student is expected to become familiar with ` the pottery and archaeological sequences of Palestine and adjacent lands, and tuition in the reading of Cuneiform texts ( Akkadian and Ugaritic), or in Egyptian grammar will be offered and continued in the Third Year. A short course

in

archaeological drawing and surveying wí11 be given.

BOOKS

Prescribed texts:

Lamm. R. S., and Shipton, G. N. Megiddo I, Strata I-V. (Univ. of Chic., 1949.) Loud, G.—Megiddo II. (Univ. of Chic., 1948.)

Yadin, Y.—Nazor I. ( London, 1958.)

Rowe, A.—Beth Sheen. (Palestine Exploration Fund, Lend., 1930.) Olmstead, T.—History of Assyria. ( Chicago Reprint Series, 1960.) Tuffnell, O.—Lashish II-W. ( O.U.P., 1940.)

Di-toton, E., and Vandier, J.—L'Egypte. ( Presse Mana, Paris, 1953.) Wiseman, D. J.—Chronicles of the Chaldaean Kings. (Brit. Mus., 1958.) Parrot, A.-Nineveh and the Old Testament. trans. by B. Hooke. ( Studies

ⁱⁿ

Biblical Archaeology, S. C. M., 1956.)

Mailler, G.—The Excavations at . Tell Qasile, Preliminary Report. ( I.E.S., Jerusalem, 1951.)

O'Callaghan, R. T.—Aram Naharaim. A Contribution to the History of Upper Mesopotamia in the Second Millennium B.C. (Pont. Inst. Bibi., Rome, 1948.) EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper, one 2-hour paper plus a short practical examination.

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A course of two lectures and two seminars per week throughout the year.

sYLLABvS

Students will have the option of:

(a) The study of Semitic epigraphy in Palestine arid the Mediterranean lands together with the closer study of Archaelogical problems relating to

Вiblical

lands.

or

(b) The archaeology and epigraphy of Hellenistic Asia Minor (some knowledge of Greek is desirable).

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Books

Prescribed texts:

Option (a):

Driver, G.

R.—Semitic Writing—From Pictograph to Alphabet. (O.U.P., 1948.)

Diringer,

D.—The Alphabet. ( Hutchinson, 1949. )

Cooke, G.

A.—A Text Book of North Semitic Inscriptions. ( O.U.P., 1903.)

Avi-Yonah, M. ( ed.

)— Sepher Yerushalayim,

Vol. I. (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Bialik Inst. and Dvir,

1956.)

Torczyner, H.—Lachish I (The Lachish Letters). ( 0.U.P., 1938.) Obermann,

J. Discoveries at Karatepe. ( Amer.

Orient

Soc., 1949.)

Clousch, Z.

N.-Thesaurus of Phoenician Inscriptions. (Dvir,

Tel-Aviv, 1954.) Abel, F.

M.—Geographic de la Palestine. ( Lib.

Lecofire, Paris,

1933-8.) Option (b):

Eusebius,

Ecclesiae Historia.

Ramsay,

W.—Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia. ( Oxford, 1911.)

Ramsay,

W.—The Cities of St. Paul. ( Oxford, 1908.)

Calder, W.

M.—Antiquae Asiaa Minons Monumenta. ( Oxford, 1921.)

Dölger, F.-lkthus. ( Münster,

1946.)

Rostovzeff, M.

—Dura Europos and its Art. ( Oxford, 1938.)

Morey, C.

R.—The Mosaics of Antioch. ( N.Y., 1938.)

Forschungen in Ephesos.

Veröffentlichungen des Oesterreichischen Archäo- logischen

Instituts.

Articles in

Anatolian Studies, Journal of Hellenic Studies.

A selection from the collection of Hebrew, Samaritan, A.ramaic and Arabic MSS.

in the department.

A full list of reference books for the Biblical Archaeology courses will be available in the department of Middle Eastern Studies.

EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper, one 2-hour paper plus -a short practical examination.

MASTER OF ARTS