Transfer Student Courses in Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies This page was created at 7:09 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26) Open courses in Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for ACABS Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies. ACABS 102. Elementary Classical Hebrew II. Ancient Israel/Hebrew Bible: Language Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites & Distribution: ACABS 101. (3). (LR). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A continuation of ACABS 101 with increased emphasis on the Biblical Hebrew verbal system and syntax as presented in Seow's A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew (revised). Additionally, students will be introduced to select readings from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Final grades will be based upon daily class performance and homework assignments, quizzes, and two exams. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ACABS 308 / GREEK 308. The Acts of the Apostles. New Testament: Courses in Greek Section 001. Instructor(s): Traianos Gagos (traianos@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Greek 102; and permission of instructor. Taught in Greek. (3). (LR). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Greek 308.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ACABS 412. Akkadian Texts. Mesopotamian and Hittite Studies: Language Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Norman Yoffee (nyoffee@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: ACABS 411. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Introduction to the Semitic language of ancient Babylonia and to the cuneiform writing system. The first term (411) concentrates on a presentation of basic grammar, and the second term (412) on the reading of several ancient texts in cuneiform. Grammatical lectures, student recitation, homework assignments. Weekly quizzes, midterm, and final examination. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ACABS 414 / RELIGION 442. Mythology and Literature of Ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamian and Hittite Studies: Culture Course Section 001. Instructor(s): Piotr A Michalowski (piotrm@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~piotrm/ACABS414.html The first known literature in the world was created almost five thousand years ago in southern Mesopotamia, in the area occupied by the modern state of Iraq. These myths, hymns, epics, proverbs, omens, spells as well as many other kinds of texts were written on clay tablets using the cuneiform script. The poems were composed in various languages, primarily in Sumerian and Akkadian (Babylonian), but we will be reading these texts in modern English translations and no knowledge of the ancient languages is required. Cuneiform was invented around 3300 BC and was used widely until the first centuries of the modern era. Archaeologists and plunderers have unearthed hundreds of thousands of inscribed clay tablets providing us with a fairly complete picture of this long-lived literature of ancient Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia. We will be reading the most important of these texts and using them as a means of understanding the worldview of a long lost ancient society. The pleasure of reading will therefore also serve as a pretext for a meditation on cross-cultural communication across time and space, as we try to respect difference but at the same time seek common ground with different people from different civilizations. Requirements: Attendance at lectures, reading of assignments, midterm and final examinations. Grading: Midterm 40%, Final examination 60%. Readings: The two required books: Benjamin R. Foster, From Distant Days: Myths, Tales and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia (Bethesda: CDL Press, 1995) and Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian (Penguin, 2000) will be available at Shaman Drum Bookstore on State Street. A course pack, in two volumes, is available at Accu-Copy, 518 East William Street; these are marked as I (essays) and II (text translations). Other materials will be made available during the course. The following books will be on reserve at the Reserve Reading Room of the Undergraduate Library (Shapiro): Foster, From Distant Days, Before the Muses; George, The Epic of Gilgamesh; A.L. Oppenheim, Ancient Mesopotamia; Oppenheim, Letters from Mesopotamia; Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia; and Michael Roaf, Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ACABS 415. Elementary Hittite. Mesopotamian and Hittite Studies: Language Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Gary M Beckman (sidd@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will present the basics of Hittite grammar through lectures, student recitation, and reading exercises in transliteration. We will acquaint ourselves with the cuneiform writing system and consider the ramifications of the adoption of this script by the Hittites for the recovery of the linguistic realities of ancient Anatolia. Attention will be given to the role of Hittite within the Indo-European family of languages. Textbook: H.A. Hoffner Jr., An Introduction to the Hittite Language. Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students whose concentration is in Near Eastern Studies, Linguistics, and Classics. Attendance at lectures and participation in classroom discussion and recitation. Quizzes, midterm and final exams. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 1 Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ACABS 486. Introduction to Middle Egyptian, II. Ancient Egypt: Language Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Terry G Wilfong (twilfong@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: ACABS 485. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A basic introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphics and Middle Egyptian, the classical form of the ancient Egyptian language. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ACABS 512. Sumerian Texts. Mesopotamian and Hittite Studies: Language Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Piotr A Michalowski (piotrm@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: ACABS 511. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Continuation of Introduction to Sumerian with emphasis on learning to read. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ACABS 582. Ugaritic, II. Ancient Israel/Hebrew Bible: Language Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Charles R Krahmalkov (crkrah@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: ACABS 581. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Readings in the Ras Shamra texts, with emphasis on the development of the Canaanite languages. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ACABS 592. Seminar in Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies. Occasional Course Section 002 – Methodology in the Study of Second Temple Judaism. Instructor(s): Gabriele Boccaccini (gbocca@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Judaic and Christian studies are gradually converging toward a more comprehensive and inclusive approach to the period of Judaism between 300 BCE and 200 CE. The concept of "late" monolithic Judaism, which constituted the background of the one Christianity, has been lately replaced by the view of an "early" pluralistic period that was both the beginning of a new stage in the inner evolution of Judaism and the first, or "Jewish," phase of Christianity. Now, the period is turning into something even more complex: the historical setting of many rival contemporaneous Judaisms (including early Christianity). With the varieties of its ideological systems, middle Judaism marks the passage from ancient Judaism to the distinct existence of the two major branches of modern Judaism: Christianity and Rabbinism. The goal of the modern interpreter is no longer the identification and synchronic study of the one Judaism as witnessed by the Jewish sources of the time, nor the identification and diachronic study of an overlapping phase in the evolution of Jewish and Christian religions. The object of a history of middle Judaic thought is the identification and diachronic study of many parallel Judaisms (including early Christianity) in themselves and in the context of their complex synchronic relationships. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. This page was created at 7:09 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. 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