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20. The Veda and the Philosophical Systems.

Assistant Professor RYDER. Lectures and reading. In connection with an outline of Vedic literature, the earlier forms of Brahmanism will be treated; then the development of ritualism and philosophy, the revolt which found expression in Buddhism and Jainism, the struggle between Brahmanism and Buddhism, and the rise of Hinduism.

2 hrs., first half-year. Tu Th, 11.

21. Classical Sanskrit Literature.

Assistant Professor RYDER. Lectures and reading. Outline treatment of the great epics and of the classical literature, exclusive of the drama. The following subjects will be treated: the Mahabharata; the Rāmāyana; the Kavya's (minor epics); lyric and elegiac poetry; novels and romances; fables and epigrams; the law books; rhetoric and poetics; scientific literature.

2 hrs., second half-year. Tu Th, 11.

*22. The Sanskrit Drama.

Assistant Professor RYDER.

Lectures and reading. The Hindu canons of dramaturgy. Dramatic production in India, from its beginnings in the Rigveda, with special study of the masterpieces of the classical period.

2 hrs., second half-year. Tu 1n, 11.

GRADUATE COURSE

220. The Veda and the Philosophical Systems.

Assistant Professor RYDER.

An expansion of course 20 with added reading and the preparation

of a thesis.

2 hrs., first half-year; 4 units. Tu Th, 11.

*Not to be given 1914-15.

SEMITIC LANGUAGES

WILLIAM POPPER, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Semitic Languages. MARTIN A. MEYER, Ph.D., Lecturer in Semitic Literature and History.

Students intending to prepare themselves for the ministry or otherwise interested in the work offered by the department are advised, on the basis of a good knowledge of the classical and modern languages, to take in their junior year courses 101A-101в and 3A-3B, and in their senior year courses 104A-104B, and 111A-111в or 113A-113B. Courses 8A-8B and 9A-9B offer a survey of the entire development of Biblical and PostBiblical Jewish history. The graduate work provides for research along the lines of Biblical exegesis, Arabic literature, and Semitic philology in general. The courses to be given in any year and the time thereof will be decided in accordance with the requirements of students; courses 104A-104B, 206A-206в, 212A-212B, 214A-214B, and 215A-215в may be repeated indefinitely, without duplication of work.

Facilities for Graduate Study.—The Semitic section of the University Library contains practically all of the works requisite for the pursuit of advanced Semitic studies. The Biblical and general Hebrew collections are largest; the Greenbaum, Louis Sloss, Elkan Cohn, and Jacob Voorsanger (Deinard) collections alone contain over 3,000 titles, and include such valuable examples as the editio priceps of the Talmud Babli, of Alfasi, of the Kuzari, of the Mishne Tora, and of the Miklol; and in the case of several other important Rabbinical works, two or more editions of each are to be found. The Arabic section of the Library is now fairly representative. The University Library is a subscriber to all the important Semitic periodicals, and possesses complete sets of back numbers.

UPPER DIVISION COURSES

101A-101в. Introduction to the Study of the Semitic Languages.

Assistant Professor POPPER.

Lectures on the nature and classification of the Semitic languages. 1 hr., throughout the year.

104A-104B. Hebrew.

Assistant Professor POPPER.

Second course: Rapid reading of selections from the historical books of the Old Testament.

2 hrs., throughout the year. Time to be arranged.

107c. Post-Biblical Hebrew.

Selected readings from the Mishnah.

1 hr., throughout the year. Tu, 4.

Dr. MEYER.

111A-111B. Syriac.

Assistant Professor PoPPER.

Text-book: Brockelmann, Syrische Grammatik.
2 hrs., throughout the year. Time to be arranged.

113A-113B. Arabic.

Assistant Professor POPPER.

Text-books: Socin, Arabic Grammar, Brünnow, Chrestomathy. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Time to be arranged.

116c-116D. Arabic, Commercial.

Assistant Professor POPPER.

Reading of commercial documents, newspapers, etc.
Time to be arranged. Prerequisite: course 113A-113B.

3A-3B. Hebrew.

FREE ELECTIVE COURSES

Assistant Professor POPPER.

First course: The elements of the language, with exercises in translating from Hebrew into English and from English into Hebrew, followed by the grammatical interpretation of the Book of Ruth. 3 hrs., tnroughout the year; 4 units. Time to be arranged.

8A-8B. The Second Hebrew Commonwealth.

Dr. MEYER. Lectures on the history and literature of the Hebrews in Palestine after the return from the captivity (536 B.C.).

1 hr., throughout the year. Tu, 2.

9A-9B. The Diaspora.

Dr. MEYER.

Lectures on the life and letters of the Jews after the fall of Jerusalem (70 A.D.)

1 nr., throughout the year. Tu, 3.

25A-25B. The Mohammedan Countries.

Assistant Professor POPPER.

Lectures on the geographical, social, economic, and political conditions in Asiatic Turkey, Egypt, and North Africa.

2 hrs., either half-year. Tu Th, 11.

GRADUATE COURSES

Assistant Professor POPPER.

206A-206в. Exegetical Course.

Philological interpretation of one or more of the prophetical and poetical books of the Bible.

2 hrs., throughout the year. Prerequisite: course 104A-104B.

210A-210B. Biblical and Targumic Aramaic. Assistant Professor POPPER. Selections from the Aramaic portions of the Old Testament and from the Targumim.

1 hr., throughout the year.

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Selections from Arabic historians dealing with the Crusades and with

the Moslem empire in Spain.

2 hrs., throughout the year.

215A-215B. Arabic.

(a) Arabic poetry (selected).
(b) The Koran, with commentary.
2 hrs., throughout the year.

219A-219B. Semitic Epigraphy.

Assistant Professor POPPER.

Courses a and b in alternate years.

Assistant Professor POPPER.

Interpretation, in successive years, of selected (a) Phoenician, (b) Aramaic, and (c) South Arabian inscriptions.

1 hr., throughout the year. Prerequisite for (a) course 104A-104B; (b), 210A-210B or 212A-212в; for (c) 214A-214B.

220A-220B. Semitic Seminar.

2 hrs., throughout the year.

Assistant Professor POPPER.

SLAVIC LANGUAGES

GEORGE R. NOYES, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Slavic Languages.

LOWER DIVISION COURSE

1A-1B. Elementary Russian.

Associate Professor NOYES.

Motti, Russian Grammar. Boyer and Speranski, Russian Reader. Practice in conversation.

3 hrs., throughout the year. M W F, 1. By special arrangement with the instructor, this course may be counted as work of the upper division, as a major course in Slavic languages.

UPPER DIVISION COURSES

102A-102B. Second-year Russian.

Reading of Tolstoy, Anna Karénin. sition. Practice in conversation.

3 hrs., throughout the year. Tu Th S, 9.

105A-105B. Advanced Russian.

Associate Professor NOYES.
Russian grammar and compo-

Associate Professor NOYES.

Practice

Rapid reading of modern prose and poetry. Composition. in conversation.

2 hrs., throughout the year. Tu Th, 8.

106A-106B. Elementary Polish.

Associate Professor NOYES.

Reading of

Wicherkiewicz, Polnische Konversations-Grammatik.

Mickiewicz and Sienkiewicz.

2 hrs., throughout the year. Hours to be arranged. 110A-110B. Advanced Polish.

Associate Professor NOYES.

Reading and study of modern Polish authors.

2 hrs., throughout the year. Hours to be arranged.

117A-117B. Advanced Bohemian.

Associate Professor NOYES.

Truhlár, Výbor z literatury české (doba nová). Kollár, Slávy Deera. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Hours to be arranged.

Instruction will be offered in other Slavic languages if there is occasion for it.

FREE ELECTIVE COURSES

The following courses do not require a knowledge of any language other than English, and are open to all students of the upper division. By special arrangement with the instructor, they may be taken as major course in Slavic languages. Course 126H, which must be taken as a major course, is listed below for convenience.

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