Concentration: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East

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Prerequisite: RELIG/NEAR E 240 or an approved equivalent from another institution

Primary source Languages: Biblical Hebrew and/or Greek

Requirements:

At least one course in which religious texts are read in Hebrew. This may be satisfied by arranging for a RELIG 600/ Independent Study with an appropriate professor; AND at least four other courses from the following:

NEAR E /SISJE 452 Song of Songs
NEAR E /SISJE 453 The Biblical Prophets
NEAR E /SISJE 454 The First Six Centuries BCE
NEAR E /SISJE 455 The Kings of Monarchic Israel
NEAR E /RELIG 457 History of Biblical Interpretation
NEAR E/SISJE 458 The Babylonian Talmud
ARAMIC 423 Readings in Syriac
EGYPT 422 Readings in Coptic
EGYPT 423 Readings in Coptic
HEBR 426 Biblical Hebrew Prose
HEBR 428 Inscriptions from Biblical Times
HEBR 454 Hebrew Poetry

Related Courses
HARAMIC 421 Biblical Aramaic
ARAMIC 422 Targumic Aramaic
ARCHY 303 Old World Prehistory
ARCHY 312 The Archaeology of Egypt
ART H 340 Pre-Classical Art and Archaeology
ART H 341 Greek Art and Archaeology
ART H 343 Hellenistic Art and Archaeology
CL AR 340 Pre-Classical Art and Archaeology
CL AR 343 Hellenistic Art and Archaeology
CLAS 322 Intellectual History of Classical Greece
CLAS 326 Women in Antiquity
CLAS 424 The Epic Tradition
CLAS 430 Greek and Roman Mythology
HSTAM 301 Ancient History
HSTAM 401 Early Greece
HSTAM 402 Classical Greece
NEAR E 215 Prophets in Islam and Judaism
NEAR E 451 Pharaonic Egypt in the Context of the Ancient Near East
NEAR E 452 The Biblical Song of Songs
NEAR E 453 The Biblical Prophets
NEAR E 454 The First Six Centuries BCE
NEAR E 455 The Kings of Monarchic Israel
NEAR E 456 Women in Ancient Judaism
NEAR E 457 The History of Biblical Interpretation

Related Language Courses
ARAMIC 411 Syriac
ARAMIC 412 Syriac
ARAMIC 421 Biblical Aramaic
ARAMIC 422 Targumic Aramaic
ARAMIC 423 Readings in Syriac
ARAMIC 451 Aramaic Epigraphy
EGYPT 410 Hieroglyphic Egyptian
EGYPT 411 Introduction to Coptic
EGYPT 422 Readings in Coptic
EGYPT 423 Readings in Coptic
GREEK 308 Introduction to Koine Greek Texts
HEBR 414 Elementary Biblical Hebrew
HEBR 415 Elementary Biblical Hebrew
HEBR 426 Biblical Hebrew Prose
HEBR 427 Biblical Hebrew Poetry
HEBR 428 Inscriptions from Biblical Times
HEBR 454 Hebrew Poetry
HEBR 455 Hebrew Fiction
HEBR 470 Stories of the Prophets
HEBR 472 Quran and Bible Masorah

General Information

Related Faculty

MARTIN S. JAFFEE PhD Brown (1980). Professor, Jackson School of International Studies. Rabbinic Judaism, Study of religion.

SCOTT NOEGEL PhD Cornell (1995).Professor, Chair of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near Eastern languages and religions.

JOEL WALKER PhD Princeton (1998). Associate Professor, History. Religion and society in the late Roman Empire, Late Antiquity, Syriac Christian literature and history.

MICHAEL A. WILLIAMS PhD Harvard (1977). Professor, Jackson School of International Studies. Early Christianity and religion in late antiquity, Study of Religion.

Selected Links

American Research Center in Egypt

American Schools of Oriental Research

Center for the Study of Ancient Documents

Okeanos

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