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Cambridge Forum for Jewish Studies

 

SEMITIC PHILOLOGY SEMINAR

Michaelmas Term 2017

This term the seminar will be held on Monday afternoons at 5pm

16th October Shai Heijmans: ‘The shewa in the first of two identical letters and the Compound Babylonian vocalisation’

30th October Mohamed Ahmed: ‘Arabic elements and Arabic interference in modern Hebrew texts written by Iraqi Jewish authors’

13th November Johan Lundberg: ‘Some aspects of diachronic Aramaic syntax’

27th November Lily Kahn (University College, London): ‘Shared non-standard features in Maskilic and Hasidic Hebrew and the Kitsur Shulḥan Arukh’

Meetings will be held in room 7 in FAMES (Sidgwick Avenue) at 5pm. All are welcome.