3 – 28 July 2023, weekdays for 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks
Taught by: F. Youhanna (Johannes; Elie) SEMAAN, O.L.M.
Aims:
This course is adapted to the level of the beginning students. As needed the alphabet will be presented, but the majority of class time may be spent reading texts. During the first two weeks we review the verbal forms of the present and perfect tenses, personal pronouns, the various usages of nouns and adjectives. The teaching method is to recognize these forms in the texts read together in class. At the end of the course each student will be prepared to describe and explain short readings from the Syriac New Testament and to produce translations of the texts.
Dates:
Enrol for the first week only: 3 – 7 July 2023
or for the first two weeks: 3 – 14 July 2023, weekdays
or for the first three weeks: 3 – 21 July 2023, weekdays
or for all four weeks: 3 – 28 July 2023, weekdays
Cost: £90 per week
Hours: 8:30 – 10.00
The course anticipates the student will spend 60 hours in personal reading and study.
Location: Liturgy Institute London (at Ealing Abbey)
74 Castlebar Road Ealing London, W5 2DD, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8194 2320
For further details or to register contact the Institute:
E-mail Clare Cogswell, the Registrar, at this linked E-mail address.
Location on Google Maps is found here.
Previous knowledge
This course provides an initial review of the materials taught in Beginning Syriac and then a continuation of reading Syriac texts. Thus, this course presumes familiarity with the alphabet and formation of words so that the majority of class time may be spent reading texts.
Content
Basic Exercises in Syriac Grammar following the Serto, West Syrian form and readings in the Syriac New Testament.
Course Material
♦ J.F. HEALEY, First Studies in Syriac (Birmingham University Semitic Study AIDS), University of Birmingham, Birmingham 1980.
♦ Robinson’s Paradigns and Exercises in Syriac Grammar, 6 ed. rev. J.F. Coakley, Oxford UP, Oxford 2013.
Course activities
♦ Study of basic grammar: verb forms, nouns, pronouns, adjectives.
♦ At the end of the course the student should be able to read in Syriac and translate simple texts from the New Testament.
Notes: Students must be over 18 years of age.
This course is designed for all the students to begin together. Once the course has begun, new students may not join in subsequent weeks.
This course is held in the mornings and may be taken alone or in conjunction with our courses offered during afternoon sessions.
If students enrol in two concurrent courses, they may wish to prepare for the intensive schedule by reading suggested texts before the course begins.
The instructor will arrange with the students to be available regularly for some time at the Institute and is also available by appointment.
Students and the public are invited to attend the annual St Bede Lecture, to be held at Ealing Abbey on Saturday afternoon 8 July at 2.30 PM.
Non-residential day students are welcome.
Limited accommodation is available for students enrolled for either two or four weeks. Non-residential students may enrol in the first, first two, first three or all four weeks.
Page updated on 19 December 2022 by DM.