Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University
Contact details
Cleveringaplaats 12311 BD Leiden
Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)71 527 2300
Email: stuco-resma-as-mes@hum.leidenuniv.nl
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/geesteswetenschappen/institute-for-area-studies
Activites
Awards degrees in Jewish Studies as a sole or major componentBA Middle Eastern Studies (Israel Studies pathway): Including History of the Middle East; Linguistic History of the Middle East; Hebrew; Jews and Judaism - An Introduction; Ottoman History and Culture; Anthropology of the Middle East; Comparative Literatures of the Middle East.
BA Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Including The oldest history, Egypt and the Near East to ca. 1000 BC; Archaeology of the Ancient Near East; Gilgamesh, Moses, Akhnaten: Religion in the Ancient Near East; Jews and Judaism: An Introduction; Biblical Hebrew; From Aram to Zakho (Aramaic); Literature, Culture, and Religion of Ancient Israel: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible.
MA Middle Eastern Studies: All students start with a common core course of 10 EC, Theories and Methods in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in their first semester. Besides this course, students can choose courses in historic and contemporary cultures, languages, literatures, and religions, politics, society, and development, either covering the Middle East as a whole, or at one of the countries or regions of the Middle East in depth.
MA Middle Eastern Studies (research): The Middle Eastern Studies (Research) programme consists of compulsory common core courses, core electives and electives, a research project, and a research MA thesis.
MA Hebrew and Aramaic Studies: Including Historical Grammar of Hebrew and Aramaic; Cultural History of Aramaic; Shem in the tents of Japhet: Exploring cultural negotiation in Greco-Roman Jewish-Greek literature; Biblical Aramaic; Reading Source Texts; Advanced Biblical Hebrew Grammar; Early Christianity: Jews, Christians and Pagans in Roman Asia Minor; Photographing Egypt, Greece, and the Near East.
Offers courses in Jewish Studies
Pursues academic research activities
Degrees offered
BA Middle Eastern Studies; BA Ancient Near Eastern Studies
MA Middle Eastern Studies; MA Hebrew and Aramaic Studies
Main research activities
Our research and teaching covers periods from medieval to contemporary times, and with a regional diversity stretching from North Africa to West and Central Asia, including the Levant, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Central Asia, and their transnational and global interactions.
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