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. Credit only.
Course Equivalencies
Language - Hebrew
Comparative Linguistics
Semitic Languages
Course 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.
Field Study
J.R. Briggs
Marsha Wright
Dongwook Joo
Greg Olson
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