Cultures and Religions

The course - provides the student with knowledge and understanding of the methodological and critical-problematic aspects of the Syriac language and literature in the context of Aramaic languages; - develops the student's autonomous ability to relate what has been learned with other SSDs: historical, literary, historical-religious disciplines; - enables the student to use the acquired knowledge and the specific learned language in view of the so-called "transversal skills". In particular, the course aims to provide a basic grammatical preparation so to enable the student to read and translate simple Syriac texts, as well as elements of Syriac culture, so to place the texts in their linguistic and historical context and understand the relationship between the development of this culture and the contemporary religious situation, which sees Muslims live together with Christians.