Tuesday
January 4

This presentation discusses the place of the Aramaic language in the Bible and in the theological studies. The place of Neo-Aramaic with its ca. 50 dialects within the living, but mostly soon dying, moribund languages.The presentation will be preceded by a short introduction in the Semitic languages as Akkadian comprising Babylonian and Assyrian; as Aramaic comprising among others, Imperial Aramaic, Biblical Aramaic, Talmudic Aramaic, Mandaic, Syriac, and modern Neo-Aramaic as Modern Assyrian and Modern Chaldean; as Hebrew comprising Biblical Hebrew, Middle and Modern Hebrew; as Arabic comprising Ancient South Arabic, Classical Qoran Arabic, Classical literary Arabic, and many dialects of Arabic; as Amharic comprising Ethiopic, etc. Presenter: Estiphan Panoussi

Time	1-4 p.m.
Location:	Room: SSV-151
Flex Credit:	3.0 Hours