Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Focus

Use of linguistic and textual methodologies, Learning ancient Oriental and Semitic languages (including Akkadian, Arabic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Hittite, Sumerian, Syriac), Questions of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy, Broad, inter-disciplinary training and regional competency, Knowledge of the contents of ancient Near Eastern and Semitic text corpora

Target group

Graduates of a specialised relevant Bachelor's degree in the area of Near and Middle Eastern Studies or (Historical) Linguistics, Text and Literature Studies or a comparable German or international professionally qualifying degree. In the first professionally qualifying degree at total of at least 90 credit points must have been acquired in the fields of Middle Eastern Studies or in Philology and Linguistics modules\; including knowledge of Arabic in the amount of 36 CP or Akkadian in the amount of 24 CP or the Hebraicum (Hebrew).

Annotation

General information The Master’s degree course "Ancient Oriental Studies – Cultural and Religious History of the Ancient Orient" is run by the two professorships of Ancient Oriental Studies and Semitic Studies. They work together with the five other professorships at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), which represent philological and cultural-historical and contemporary social science and economics topics (Arabic Studies, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Politics and Economics of the Near and Middle East). There are also collaborations with other methodological subjects at Philipps University (including Linguistics, Ethnology, Religious Studies). Research focuses Different specialisations can be chosen within the degree course: The application of linguistic and textual methodology, the learning of one or more ancient Oriental and Semitic languages (including Accadian, Arabic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Hittite, Sumerian, Syrian) and questions of cultural studies and cultural policy. Broad, interdisciplinary training and regional expertise are further high-level objectives of the degree programme.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

More information regarding admission requirements

Admission requirements

https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/studium/studienangebot/master/m-sorient

Tuition fees

Currently, the German federal state of Hesse does not charge tuition fees.