Universität Wien

140080 PS Akkadian Reading I (2016S)

Continuous assessment of course work

Voraussetzungen. für AO-3: AO-2, für AO-9: AO-2 und AO-4

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 12 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 08.03. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 15.03. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 05.04. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 12.04. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 19.04. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 26.04. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 03.05. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 10.05. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 24.05. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 31.05. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 07.06. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 14.06. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 21.06. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
  • Tuesday 28.06. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Reading of extracts from the akkadian myth of Adapa

Assessment and permitted materials

the text will be read in class; students are required to prepare for this; in addition, they will give short presentations on pertinent topics; students will take two written exams, one at mid-term, one at the end of the term.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The course's aim is to improve the students' knowledge of Akkadian grammar and of the cuneiform script and to introduce them to Akkadian literature and literary language. Overview of critical approaches to editing Mesopotamian literary texts.

Examination topics

the text will be read in class; students are required to prepare for this; in addition, they will give short presentations on pertinent topics; students will take two written exams, one at mid-term, one at the end of the term.

Reading list

Editions:
Edition(en)
Picchioni, S.A., Il poemetto di Adapa, Budapest, Eötvös Loránd Universität, 1981 (= Assyriologia, VI)
Izre'el, Sh., Adapa and the South Wind. Language Has the Power of Life and Death. Winona Lake, Indiana, Eisenbrauns, 2001 (= Mesopotamian Civilizations 10).

Further bibliographical references will be given in the first meeting of the class.

Association in the course directory

AO-3, AO-9

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