HCL 655 Northwest Semitic Dialects

Lectures: Tuesdays & Thursdays at 9:45am - 11:00am Eastern Time

Credit Hours: 3

Cost: $540 Audit; $2,085 Credit

Recorded Lectures: No

Description

This course will examine and compare Ammonite, Hebrew, Moabite, and Phoenician inscriptions, so that students are able to read Iron Age inscriptions of Israel's neighbors. Special emphasis will be placed on Comparative Semitic linguistic features and forming a dialect geography of the Northwest Semitic languages. Prerequisite: 1 year of Biblical Hebrew.

Objectives

By the end of the course, a student should be able to:

• read Iron Age inscriptions in Hebrew, Old Aramaic, Phoenician, Punic, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, and Deir Allah;
• understand the basics of the science of epigraphy;
• have a basic understanding of Levantine dialect geography; and
• exercise tools for further research in Northwest Semitic linguistics.

Equivalencies

• Language - Hebrew
• Comparative Linguistics
• Semitic Languages

Instructor

Rabbi Dr. Eldon Clem: B.A., The Master’s College; M.A., M.Div., Trinity International University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. Ordained rabbi. Published author. Began teaching at JUC in 2011.