DESCRIPTION:

This course, a continuation of Ugaritic I, LG533, will be devoted to further reading of Ugaritic literature in transliteration, particularly the Aqhat Epic.

For students pursuing either a course of study leading to an advanced degree in Old Testament or Semitic Languages and Literatures, a knowledge of the grammar and the literature of the Ugaritic language is an important discipline to master. Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic dialect more closely related in many respects to the later Canaanite languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic than either the East Semitic dialects of Akkadian or the Southwest Semitic languages of the Arabic and Ethiopic regions. Further, it provides a most important source of material that is closely parallel in its literary forms and religious content to that of the later Canaanite world with which ancient Israel was not only closely related culturally but also in intimate contact.

The course will meet twice weekly in two-hour sessions for recitation of texts prepared from a workbook provided for the student.

Bush, F. W. Ugaritic Workbook. Fuller Syllabus.

Gordon, Cyrus H. Ugaritic Textbook. Analectia Orientalia 38. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1965.

Students will be required to prepare material from the Workbook prior to class recitation.

LG533, Ugaritic I.

The course is intended for M.A. in Semitic Languages, Th.M., and Ph.D. students. Master's level students who meet the course prerequisites may be admitted with special permission.

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