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SUMMARY:EDWARD ULLENDORFF AND THE STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES - Professor S
 imon Hopkins\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
DTSTART:20130522T160000Z
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CONTACT:Geoffrey Khan
DESCRIPTION:Edward Ullendorff (1920-2011) was one of the most distinguishe
 d scholars in the field of Semitic philology in the second half of the twe
 ntieth century. The Ullendorff lectures in Semitic philology have been mad
 e possible by a generous donation from his widow\, Dina Ullendorff.\n\nThe
  speaker in this year’s lecture\, Professor Simon Hopkins\, will discuss
  the general approach of the late Professor  Edward Ullendorff to the stud
 y of Semitic languages and will describe several aspects of the subject in
  which he took a particular interest and about which he wrote.\n\nExamples
  will be given of the way Semitic philology has been applied in the field 
 of Biblical translation and exegesis\, using textual material from the wor
 ld of the medieval Middle East (in Hebrew\, Aramaic and Arabic) and from E
 thiopia (in Ge'ez and Amharic).\n\nThe lecture will sketch some of the cha
 nges that have occurred in the study of Semitic languages since the 1930s 
 when Professor Ullendorff was a student in Jerusalem.
LOCATION:Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site)\, Roo
 m 8-9
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