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The Faculty Board of Oriental Studies give notice that the specified texts, specified periods, and special subjects selected for the Oriental Studies Tripos, 2002, will be as follows:
Selections from Biblical and Jewish Aramaic texts.
Selections from Syriac texts.
The Targums; history and literature of the Syriac-speaking church until the end of the fifth century A.D.
Selections from Aramaic texts and inscriptions.
Selections from Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic texts.
A topic in the history or literature of the Syriac-speaking church.
The Code of Hammurapi, in E. Bergmann, ed., Codex Hammurabi (1953), laws 1-65 in cuneiform, laws 228-60 in transliteration.
The Annals of Sennacherib, third to seventh campaigns, in R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke, 2nd ed. (1979), pp. 329-32. In cuneiform.
Gilgamesh, Tablet XI, lines 1-257, in R. C. Thompson, ed., The Epic of Gilgamish (1930), pls. 44-50. In cuneiform.
Ludlul, Tablet I, in W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature, pp. 30-36, with D. J. Wiseman, Anatolian Studies 30 (1980), 101-7. In transliteration.
Either (1) The history and archaeology of trade in the ancient Near East, or (2) Topics in Iranian archaeology, or (3) Topics in Anatolian archaeology, or (4) The religious practices and institutions of ancient Mesopotamia.
Selections from pre-Tang dynasty texts.
Selections from Cen Shen ji jiaozhu (Shanghai: Shanghai Guji chubanshe, 1981).
Selections from Fu sheng liu ji (Taibei: Shuming Wenhua Shiye, 1985).
The history of dynastic China.
The history of China from 1800 to the present.
Selections from Sima Guang, Zizhi tong jian (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1956);
Selections from Tang verse.
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Religion in dynastic China; |
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The development of Chinese fiction; |
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Discussions of late imperial society. |
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The Han period; |
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The Age of Disunion; |
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The Tang period; |
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Late Imperial Society. |
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Readings in texts from the Han period; |
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Readings in texts from the Age of Disunion; |
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Readings in texts from the Tang period; |
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Readings in texts from Late Imperial Society. |
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Twentieth-century Chinese literature; |
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War in the making of modern China. |
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Readings in Chinese literature since 1900; |
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Readings in the history of China since the Taiping Rebellion. |
A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar (Third edn., Oxford, 1957), reading extracts at ends of chapters XIV, XV, XVII, XX, XXI, XIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII.
K. H. Sethe, Aegyptische Lesestücke (1924-37), nos. 3, 14, 22, 23.
W. Till, Koptische Grammatik Leipzig, 1970), Chrestomathie, pp. 259-318.
Old Egyptian:
K. H. Sethe, Urkunden des alten Reiches, in Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums, hrsg. von G. Steindorff, Abt, I, Bd. 1, Heft 1-4 (1932-33), nos. 17, 26 (Biographies of Weni and Harkhuf).
K. H. Sethe, Die altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte, Bd. 1 (1908), sections 393a-414c = Utterances 273-4 (the Cannibal Hymn).
P. Posener-Kriéger and J-L. de Cenival, Hieratic papyri in the British Museum (5th series, 1968), 'The Abu Sir Papyri', plates IIIA-VA, XXA, XXIA, XXXIIIA-XXXVA, LIIIA.
Middle Egyptian:
K. H. Sethe, Aegyptische Lesestücke (1924-37; repr. 1959), nos. 11, 12, 18, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34.
K. H. Sethe, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie, 356-375 (obelisk inscriptions of Hatshepsut), and 647-667 (the capture of Megiddo).
Sandman, Texts from the time of Akhenaten (Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca VIII, 1938), 93-6 (the great hymn to the Aten).
Late Egyptian:
A. H. Gardiner (ed.), The Blinding of Truth and Wenamūun (in Late-Egyptian Stories, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca I, 1932).
A. H. Gardiner, Ramesside Administrative Documents (1948), pp. 45-49.
A. H. Gardiner (ed.), Papyrus Sallier I (in Late Egyptian Miscellanies, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca VII, 1937).
W. Golénischeff, Les Papyrus hiératiques nos. 115, 116A et 116B de l'Ermitage Impérial à St-Pétersbourg (1913), pls. 1-8.
T. G. H. James, The Hekanakhte Papers and other Early Middle Kingdom Documents (New York, 1962), Plates 1-4.
G. Möller, Hieratische Lesestücke, II (1909), pp. 1-6, 28, 39.
T. E. Peet, The Mayer Papyri A and B (1920), p. 1 line 1-p. 3 line 5.
Sa'idic:
E. A. Wallis Budge (ed.), Coptic Biblical Texts (1912). Jonah.
J. Drescher (ed.), Three Coptic Legends (1947), pp. 32-67 (The Seven Sleepers).
J. Leipoldt (ed.), 'Sinuthii Archimandritae Vita et opera omnia, vol. 3', Scriptores Coptici (Textus Series Secunda. Tomus IV, 1908), III, pp. 30-67.
W. E. Crum, Varia Coptica (1939), nos. 5, 6, 8, 19, 25, 33, 34, 45, 50, 58.
Akhmimic:
W. Till, Die achmimische Version der 12 kleinen Propheten, Coptica IV (1927).
Fayyumic:
W. Till, Koptische Chrestomathie für den fayumischen Dialekt (1930).
Bohairic:
A. Mallon, Grammaire copte (4th ed., 1956), Chrestomathie, pp. 1-121.
Framework of living.
The practice of religion.
Interconnections.
Art and artefacts.
Topics in Egyptology.
Selections from Biblical and post-biblical Hebrew texts.
Section A. Israelite and Judean history and literature. Section B. Selections from Modern Hebrew literature.
Selections from Modern Hebrew literature.
Selections from Mishnaic and medieval Hebrew texts.
Selections from classical and post-biblical Hebrew texts.
Selections from post-biblical Jewish texts.
Selections from modern Hebrew literature.
Section A: Inscriptions
Selections from North-West Semitic texts.
Section B: Hebrew poetry
Selections from classical, medieval, and modern Hebrew poetry.
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The Ugaritic mythological and legendary literature; |
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The history of the Hebrew language; |
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The history and literature of the Jews from 1050 to 1290 C.E.; |
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The Hebrew short story or Hebrew drama in the twentieth century. |
Vikramorvaśīya.
Mahābhāṣya, Paspaśāhnika, with the Pradīpa commentary of Kaiyaṭa.
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 1. 1, 1. 154, 2. 12, 2. 33, 7. 61, 7. 86, 8. 48, 10. 14, 10. 90, 10. 129 (these passages are contained in A. A. Macdonell, A Vedic Reader for Students); 10. 129 with the commentary of Sāyaṇa (ed. Sontakke).
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4. 16, 5. 14, 19. 53, 19. 54.
Aitareyabrāhmaṇa, extracts 2-4 (O. Böhtlingk, Sanskrit Chrestomathie, 3rd ed., pp. 28-34).
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa, extracts 1, 3-4 (Böhtlingk, pp. 36, 38-42).
Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 14, 47, 128, 140, 160, 186 from W. Caland, Das Jaiminīya-Brāhmaṇa in Auswahl (Amsterdam 1919).
Mānavadharmaśāstra 12.
Kumārasaṃbhava 3.
Harṣacarita 1.
Gītagovinda 1, 2, 6, 7.
Kāvyādarśa 1.
Baudhāyana śrautasūtra 10. 1-4.
Taittirīya Saṃhitā 4.1.1-4, 5.1.1-5.
Nirukta 1-2.
Aṣṭādhyāyī 1. 1, 1. 4 with the Kāśikā commentary.
Ślokavārttika, ātmavāda. Sāṃkhyakārikā 1-21, 56-72; 19-21 with the
Tattvakaumudī commentary.
Abhidharmakośabhāṣya, Pudgalaviniścaya.
Pratyabhijñāhḍrdaya.
Aśoka, rock edicts 1-4, 13.
Therīgāthā 1-126.
Majjhima-nikāya, sutta 10 (Satipaṭṭhānasutta).
Uttarajjhayaṇasutta, ajjhayaṇa 9.
Sthūulabhadrakathā (Kumārapālapratibodha, ed. L. Alsdorf), pp. 100-13.
Sattasaī (ed. A. Weber) stanzas 1-20, 375-95.
Kānhaḍdadeprabandha, ed. K. B. Vyās, pp. 1-10 (verses 1.1-50).
Vīsaḍladevarāsa, ed. John D. Smith, pp. 104-145 (verses 27-47).
Mũhatā naiṇasī rī khyāta, ed. Badrīprasād Sākariyā, Vol. 3, pp. 58-79 (Vāta pābūujī rī).
Sūurajmal Miśran, 'Duva sena udaggana', in Motīlāl Menāriyā, Rājasthānī bhāsā aur sāhitya, pp. 319-21.
The epic of Pabujī, ed. John D. Smith, pp. 244-9 (ll. 3576-3735)
The history of the Indian Sub-Continent from the late eighteenth century to the present day (Paper 26 of Part II of the Historical Tripos).
The sociology and politics of South Asia.
War and nationalism in South and South-east Asia, 1942-49. A list of works prescribed for study, and for reference, is available from the History Faculty Office.
Topics in the development of Japanese culture.
Topics in Japanese history.
Topics in modern Japanese society.
Topics in the politics and economy of modern Japan.
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