EDWARD ULLENDORFF AND THE STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES
Professor Simon Hopkins
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
5.00pm, Wednesday, 22nd May, 2013
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site),
Room 8-9.
All are welcome. The event will be followed by a reception.
Edward Ullendorff (1920-2011) was one of the most
distinguished scholars in the field of Semitic philology in the second half of
the twentieth century. The Ullendorff lectures in Semitic philology have been
made possible by a generous donation from his widow, Dina Ullendorff.
The speaker in this year’s lecture, Professor Simon Hopkins,
will discuss the general approach of the late Professor Edward Ullendorff to the study of Semitic
languages and will describe several aspects of the subject in which he took a
particular interest and about which he wrote.
Examples will be given of the way Semitic philology has been
applied in the field of Biblical translation and exegesis, using textual
material from the world of the medieval Middle East (in Hebrew, Aramaic and
Arabic) and from Ethiopia (in Ge'ez and Amharic).
The lecture will sketch some of the changes that have
occurred in the study of Semitic languages since the 1930s when Professor
Ullendorff was a student in Jerusalem.
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