Doctor's degree Biblical Studies - Graduate Theological Union

Doctor's degree Biblical Studies from Graduate Theological Union is a Campus Ph.D Religious Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Study includes the entire biblical corpus, with a specific concentration in either Old Testament/Hebrew Bible or New Testament. In addition to the canonical, deuterocanonical, and extra-canonical materials, courses are also available in the background and literature of early Israel, biblical and post-biblical Judaism, and early Christianity. Objectives Students who complete the degree achieve competence in languages central to the program; acquire skills for the critical study of primary texts; acquire skill in the application of particular methodological approaches to the study of biblical texts; and are prepared to engage interdisciplinary discourses that shape research and teaching in biblical studies . Complementary Concentration Within the first year, the student will also identify a complementary concentration, which can consist of a traditional area of religious studies (e.g. patristics, rabbinics, ethics, history of religions, theology), or a methodology (e.g. literary criticisms, sociology, anthropology, comparative linguistics, rhetoric, psychology), or a field of history and culture adjacent to but distinct from the Bible per se (e.g., ancient Near East, Greco-Roman world, Judaica), or an interdisciplinary focus (e.g., feminisms, ethnic studies , performance theory, cultural studies). View more details on Graduate Theological Union . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Religious Studies courses.