C.U.P., 1943.) Kalilah wa-Dimnah

21. ARABIC PART I

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

External studies are not available.

SYLLAВ Us

Translation from classical Arabic into English and from English into Arabic.

Accidence and syntax. Outline of the history and literature of the Jahiliyya. Muham- mad and the origins of Islam.

BOOKS

Prescribed texts:

Haywood, J. A.-A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language. (1962.) Thornton, F. du

P.,

and Nicholson, R. A.—Elementary Arabic, A Grammar.

(C.U.P., 1943.)

FACULTY OF ABTS ВANDB00x

Recommended for reference:

As for Arabic I: and II, plus:

Weir, T. H.—Arabic Prose

Composition. (C.U.P.,

1910. ) EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

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52. BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND ANTIQUITIES PART I A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.

SYLLABUS

A study with commentaries of historical books of the Bible: Samuel, I Kings, Luke and Acts in any English translation. Biblical history up to the end of I Kings.

will also be studied. The relevance and techniques of Biblical Archaeology and the background of Biblićal Literature and Criticism will be dealt with in detail in relation to the Biblical History. One lecture per week will be entirely devoted to Archaeology.

BOOKS

Prescribed textbooks:

Crollenberg, L. I.—Atlas of the Bible. ( Nelson,

Еdin., 1956. )

or Wright, G. E., and Filson, F. V. The Westminster Historical Atlas to the Bible.

( Westminster Press, Phil., 1945.) Peake's

Commentary. ( Nelson,

1962. )

or A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture. ( Nelson, le1b., 1953.)

Hastings, J. ( ed. )—A Dictionary of the Bible. (T. and T. Clark, Edin., 1963.) or Encyclopaedia Migra'lt. (Mosad Bialik, Jerus., 1950. )

Anati, E. Palestine Before the Hebrews. ( Jonathan Cape, 1963.)

Daniel-Rops, H.-Israel and the Ancient World. (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949.) Ricciotti, G.—The History of Israel. ( Bruce, Milwaukee, 1955. )

Bright, J.—Early Israel in Recent History Writing. ( S.C.M. Press, 1956.) Bright, J.—History of Israel. ( S.C.M. Press, 1960. )

de Vaux, R.—Ancient Israel-Its Life and Institutions. (Sartin, Longman and Todd, 1962.)

Wright, G. E.—Biblical Archaeology. (Westminster Press, 1958.)

Albright, W. F.—Archaeology and the Religion of Israel. ( Johns Hopkins Press, 1946.)

Manson, W.—Cот pап ion to the Bible. ( New ed., H. H. Rowley, T. and T.

Clark, 1963. )

Manson, W--The Gospel of Luke. (Hodder & Stoughton, 1930.)

Conzelmann, H.—The

Theology of Saint Luke. ( Faber, 1960. ) Grant, F. C.—The Gospels: Their Origin and Growth. (1959. ) Bruce, F. F.—The Acts of the Apostles. (Tyndale, London, 1951.) Dibelius,

М.—Studies in the Acts of the Apostles. ( S.C.M., 1956. )

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

53. BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND ANTIQUITIES PART II

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

SYLLABUS

A study with commentaries of the books of Jeremiah, Psalms and Synoptic Gospels in any English translation, and of Biblical history from the beginning of n Kings until the period of the Seleucid dynasty.

Particular attention will be given to the study of Biblical chronology in its relation to Assyro-Babylonian history.

BOOKS

Special Topic for 1966: Prophecy.

Lindblom, J. Prophecy In Ancient Israel. (Blackwell, 1963.) Prescribed textbooks:

As for Biblical Literature and Antiquities part I plus:

Chaire, J.—God's Heralds. (Wagner, N.Y., 1955. )

or Lods, A. Israel: The Prophets and the Rise of Judaism. (Kegan Paul, 1935.) Olmstead, Т . History of Assyria. (U. of Chicago Press, 1951.)

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SEMITIC STUDIES

Wiseman, D. j.—Chronicles of the Chaldean Kings. ( London, 1956.)

Grant, R.

М

.—

А

n

Нtstorical Introduction to the New Testament. (Collins,

1963.)

Dibelius, M.—From Tradition to Gospel. (tr. Bertram L. Woolf. ) Taylor, Vincent—The Formation of the Gospel Tradition.

Cadbury, H. J.—The

Making of Luke-Acts. 1958. )

Bultman, R. History of the Synoptic Tradition. (1963.)

Gospel

S

Parallels. ( First three Gospels following Huck-Lietzmann and using the

R..V.)

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

54. BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND ANTIQUITIES PART III

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

The course will comprise a study of Dead Sea Scrolls in English translation, selected writings from Apocrypha and New Testament; and an introduction to the Biblical text, canon and versions. In addition all students will study Palestinian history from second century B.C. to second century A.D. and either (a) Palestinian archaeo- logy of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, or (b) Pauline Christology.

BOOKS

(a) Prescribed texts:

Caster, T. H.-Scriptures

of the Dead Sea Scrolls. ( Secker & Warburg, 1957.)

Josephus—Antiquities; Jewish War.

Bowman, 3.—The

Gospel of Mark. (Brill, Leiden, 1964. )

Burrows, M.—More

Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls. ( Secker & Warburg, 1956.)

Fritsch, C. T.—The Qumran Community—Its Нistо

ry and Scrolls. (Macmillan,

N.Y., 1956. )

Stendahl, K.—The Scrolls'and the New Testament. (S.C.M., 1958.)

Mowry, L.-The

Dead Sea Scrolls and the Early Church. (University of Chicago

Press.)

Charles, R. H.—Testaments

of the Twelve Patriarchs. ( Macmillan, Lend., 1917.)

Goodenough, E. R. Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period. (Bollingen,

1958-9. )

Simons, J. Jerusalem in the Old Testament. (Brill, Leiden, 1952.)

Lattey,

С.—The Synoptic Problem.

Clogg, B. C. Introduction

to the New Testament. (Univ. of Lend. P., 1937.)

or Wikenhauser, A.—New Testament Introduction. (Herder & Horde, Freiburg,

1958.)

Bruce, F. F.—The Books and the Parchments. (3rd ed., Pickering & Inglis, 1963.)

Hanson, R. P. C. Tradition in the Early Church. (S.C.M., 1962.) Special Study: Johannine Literature.

Grant, R. 1.—An

Historical Introduction to the New Testament. (Collins, 1963.)

Knox, R. A.—New

Testament Commentary for English Readers. (Burns, Oates

55. MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT AND CULTURE PART I

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

SYLLABUS

(

а

) The study will cover aspects of the rise of literate civilization in the Middle East. Lectures will cover Sumero-Babylonian mythology, Canaanite and Egyptian Literature concepts of social life, and institutions against a background of

ancient art and in the i

e context of comparative religion.

or (b) Islam: Islamic Faith and Institutions including the study of religious move-

ments and sects, and theology.

& Washbourne, London, 1953.)

Hoskyns, E.—The Fourth Gospel. (ed. Davey, 1956.)

Cross, F. L. (ed. )—Studies

in the Fourth Gospel. (Mowbray, 1960.)

A full list of reference books for Biblical Literature and Antiquities will be available in the department of Semitic Studies.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

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