2007 - 2008 Semitic Philology Workshop
A Harvard University GSAS-sponsored Research Workshop

Faculty Advisors: Professors John Huehnergard, Jo Ann Hackett, and Wolfhart Heinrichs
Student Coordinator: Na'ama Pat-El, PhD candidate, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

If you have questions or need further information about this workshop, please contact the student coordinator Na'ama Pat-El.

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Fall 2007 workshop schedule:

10/11 Elitzur Bar-Asher "Evaluation of the Evidence for Dual Pronouns and Verbal Forms in Biblical Hebrew"

10/25 Ahmad Al-Jallad "the Development of neo-Arabic interrogatives"

11/8  Prof. Orly Goldwasser (Hebrew University of Jerusalem),  "Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs: The Invention of the Alphabet in  Sinai".

11/15    Na'ama Pat-El "A Short History of Demonstratives in Aramaic"

11/29  John Huehnergard and Jo Ann Hackett, "Revising BDB:  Thoughts on Hebrew Lexicography"

12/13  James Jumper "Towards a Methodology for the Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts"

Spring 2008 workshop schedule:

2/21    Prof. Richard Steiner (Yeshiva University), TBA

3/6        Avigail Noy "Some remarks on the "'ishtighal" (occupation)  phenomenon in medieval Arabic grammatical tradition"

3/20    Prof. Leo Depuydt (Brown University) "Relative Clauses in  Egyptian, Semitic, and in General: Types and Boolean Perspective."

?        Na'ama Pat-El "a short history of demonstratives in Aramaic"