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Endangered Languages. Eskimo Aleut Language Family. Germanic Branch. Heritage Languages. Throughout the Middle Ages, Hebrew continued as a written language of educated Jews and even played a part in Spanish-Jewish poetry.
Nowadays one can find a wealth of literature composed in Modern Hebrew, and many works within Judaic Studies are published solely in Modern Hebrew. The living, innovative language spoken in the nation of Israel today can be traced throughout history: from renowned texts such as the Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Mishna through the Middle Ages where it was found mainly within the Yiddish-, Latino-, and Judeo-Arabic cultures until it was finally revived as a national language in modern times.
First cycle courses in Classical Hebrew are designed to provide students with knowledge and skills in the grammar of Classical Hebrew but students also get to look at texts produced after the Bible.
Students are taught to understand and analyze texts within the context of the history of the Near East. Included in the courses at the first cycle level are also introductions to Aramaic and other Northwestern languages including Ugaritic.
First cycle courses in Modern Hebrew are designed to provide students with knowledge of Modern Hebrew grammar and training in reading, understanding and linguistically analyzing Modern Hebrew fiction and nonfiction, as well as literature from various genres and time periods. Included in the courses at the first cycle level are also courses relating to Jewish history. Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language with a year-history including a rich and varied literary tradition.
Syriac Aramaic has played a major role within Syriac Christendom that can be compared to Arabic within Islam and Hebrew within Judaism. Among members of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the language is used as a living means of communication; the same is true for the Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Students who continue to our C-level course will also come in contact with the dialects of Turoyo and Urmia, the two main spoken dialects of the Neo-Aramaic group used within Syriac Christendom today. The study of Syriac language and culture constitutes important aspects of the field of Semitic languages, not only with regard to linguistics and philology but also because of the contact with other disciplinary fields such as history and religious and literature studies.
The study of Syriac in a broad sense is also important for the communication with immigrants that today are representatives of a living Syriac tradition. There is also an introduction to the Aramaic language and its historical development and other Aramaic dialects.
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