Students at the intermediate (with a minimum of one year of Akkadian) and advanced levels are introduced to first millennium BC Mesopotamian language, vocabulary, grammar, and social and political history through examination of Babylonian and Assyrian private letters and diplomatic correspondence.
This course introduces the fundamentals of Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic) with an overview of grammar and the writing system, as well as exercises in reading early monumental and simple narrative texts.
Initiation to the reading and interpretation of pre-exilic Hebrew and Transjordanian inscriptions. This course involves reading and analysis of the inscriptional material from Palestine written during the first millennium BC (including texts from Transjordan).
Review basic Hebrew grammar, emphasis on morphology and basic syntax; Review/acquire historical morphology; Acquire facility in reading Biblical Hebrew prose
This course is a continuation of Sumerian Literary Texts I. We will continue, and finish, reading Gilgamesh and Huwawa A, and then continue on to Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld before reading Enki and Ninhursag.
Sumerian Literary Texts I (SUMR 20310) and the full-year Sumerian A sequence (SUMR 10101)
This sequence provides a thorough survey in lecture format of the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt from the late Pre-dynastic era through the Roman period.
The course will take its start from combing the “Histories” and “Politics” sections, and their commentaries, and listings of the recently published Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library of Sultan Bayezid II of 1502-1503 (Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502-1503/1503-1504), eds. G. Necipoglu, C. Kafadar, C.H. Fleischer, 2 vols., Brill 2019), to develop a map of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish historiographical and political theoretical terrain that formed the foundation of the early modern Islamic understanding of history as science, and its mobilization in the interest of reestablishment of universalist sovereignty in the sixteenth century and beyond. It will then proceed to selected readings in original languages, selections to be determined by linguistic capacities and focus of participants.
In this course, we will investigate and discuss prevalent topics in the philological and linguistic study of Semitic languages. The weekly topics will touch on the major sub-categories of grammar and focus on methodology.
Introduction to Comparative Semitics or equivalent (e.g. general intro to Linguistics). Consent of Instructor required.
This course will discuss current trends in research for 19th and early 20th C Ottoman and Turkish history
Required of fourth-year students who are majoring in NELC. This is a workshop course designed to survey the fields represented by NELC and to assist students in researching andcompleting their Research Project. Students must get a Reading and Research form from their College Adviser and complete the form in order to be registered. Signatures are needed from the adviser and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Please indicate on the form that you wish to register for NEHC 29899 Section 01.
