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Students acquire knowledge of a language of the fringe and contact zone to a level which makes possible the reading of easy texts. They sharpen their logical thinking, deepen their understanding of their own language and widen their perception of foreign forms of expression through their encounter with the structures and forms of expression of the foreign language.

Aramaic is spoken since 3,000 years. From a popular language for worship and religion in Ancient Syria, Aramaic became one of the most important language in the Near East from Egypt to India in the 6th c.BCE. It is considered to be the first world languages. Students will get basic knowledge of the grammar of a language of the fringe and contact zone; reading of easy texts in this language.

The course is intended to be a face-to-face course with Power-Points.

Written exam.

A complete list of literature will be handed out in the first lesson. Selected bibliography:
* Franz Rosenthal, A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic, Wiesbaden 2006
* Daniel Nicolae / Josef Tropper, Biblisch-Aramäisch kompakt. Lehrbuch mit Übungstexten, Glossar und Paradigmensammlung (HESED 2), Kamen 2010
* Wilhelm Gesenius, Hebräisches und Aramäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament, hg. v. H. Donner, Berlin / Heidelberg¹⁸2010
* Ursula Schattner-Rieser, L’araméen, in: E. Bonvini et al., Dictionnaires des Langues, Paris 2011

See above. 

Knowledge of at least one Semitic language is preferred.