Semitic Studies and Ancient Oriental Philology

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Focus

Use of linguistic and textual methodologies, Learning ancient Oriental and Semitic languages (including Akkadian, Arabic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Hittite, Sumerian, Syriac), Questions of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy, Broad, inter-disciplinary training and regional competency, Knowledge of the contents of ancient Near Eastern and Semitic text corpora

Target group

Graduates of a specialised relevant Bachelor's degree in the area of Near and Middle Eastern Studies or (Historical) Linguistics, Text and Literature Studies or a comparable German or international professionally qualifying degree. In the first professionally qualifying degree at total of at least 90 credit points must have been acquired in the fields of Middle Eastern Studies or in Philology and Linguistics modules\; including knowledge of Arabic in the amount of 36 CP or Akkadian in the amount of 24 CP or the Hebraicum (Hebrew).

Annotation

In the Master's degree programme in Semitic Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Philology, you will deepen your specialist knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern and/or Semitic Studies. Here you will acquire philological, linguistic and cultural studies content and methods, deepen your knowledge of (ancient) oriental languages and benefit from the opportunity to set your own priorities: You can place a clear emphasis on Semitic Studies or on Ancient Near Eastern Studies, or you can benefit from both disciplines and put together your own combination of Semitic and Ancient Near Eastern content. Marburg's Ancient Oriental Studies (also known as Assyriology) researches above all the traditional texts of the Babylonian-Assyrian scholarly world, with a focus on Ancient Oriental magic, omens and science. In its teaching, Ancient Oriental Studies pursues the concept of the broadest possible education, with the emphasis on the study of Akkadian and Sumerian and the learning of cuneiform script. In the Master SeAor in particular, the ability to read cuneiform texts from the original or from a photograph is taught in addition to deepening language skills. Semitic studies in Marburg has a clear focus on the classical West Semitic languages. In teaching, it aims at a deeper understanding of linguistic and textual methodology. These are applied to both handwritten and epigraphically handed down text corpora, with a particular focus on Classical Arabic, Old South Arabic and Ethiopian.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

Admission requirements (Link)

Admission requirements

Fees

Currently, the German federal state of Hesse does not charge tuition fees.