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Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Studies University of Chicago, USA

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$11268

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Divinity School

Course summary

This program seeks to understand and interpret the Jewish and Christian scriptures and related texts in their historical and cultural settings as well as in their subsequent roles as canonical texts for Judaism and Christianity. Contributing to these goals are four distinct areas of research: the historical contexts of these scriptures from ancient Israel to the Roman empire, the history and transmission of biblical and post-biblical literature, the history and methods of exegesis, and biblical and post-biblical theology.

Program modules

BIBL 30601 Introduction to Judaic Civilization. Robinson, BIBL 32400 Introduction to Hebrew Bible. Staff, BIBL 32500 Introduction to New Testament: Texts and Contexts. Staff, BIBL 33900 Elementary Hebrew. Staff, BIBL 34000 Intermediate Hebrew I. Staff, BIBL 34100 Intermediate Hebrew II. Staff, BIBL 35100 Elementary Koine Greek. Staff, BIBL 35300 Intermediate Koine Greek. Staff, BIBL 35400 Advanced Koine Greek. Staff, BIBL 36300 Plutarch: Isis and Osiris. Martinez, BIBL 39900 Song of Songs. Fish bane, BIBL 43400 Science and Scripture: Jewish Philosophical Exegesis in the Middle Ages. Robinson, BIBL 45200 Studies in Midrash: Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer. Fish bane, BIBL 45700 Studies in Midrash: Leviticus Rabba. Fishbane, BIBL 45500 The Bible and Its Ancient Interpreters. Fishbane, BIBL 45700 Studies in Midrash: Lenticus Rabba. Fishbane, BIBL 46900 Wrath of God in the Hebrew Bible. Fishbane, BIBL 40300 The Gospel of Luke. Klauck, BIBL 41800 The Old Testament in the Gospel of John. Klauck, BIBL 41801 Justin Martyr. Martinez, BIBL 42000 The Gospel According to Mark. Mitchell, BIBL 42100 The Thessalonian Letters. Mitchell, BIBL 42200 The Farewell Discourses of the Gospel of John. Klauck, BIBL 42500 Revelation: The New Testament Apocalypse. Klauck, BIBL 43400 Science and Scripture: Jewish Philosophical Exegesis in the Middle Ages. Robinson, BIBL 43600 The Pastoral Epistles. Mitchell, BIBL 43900 I Corinthians. Mitchell, BIBL 44400 Lucian of Samosata. Martinez, BIBL 44500 Philo of Alexandria. Martinez, BIBL 47200 Reconsidering Patristic Biblical Interpretation. Mitchell, BIBL 50400 Early Christian Rhetoric. Mitchell, BIBL 51000 Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds. Martinez, BIBL 51200 Paul and Ritual. Betz, BIBL 51700 Dio Chrysostom and the New Testament. Klauck, BIBL 51900 The Acts of Thomas. Klauck, BIBL 52400 The Historical Jesus in Recent Research. Mitchell, BIBL 52800 Early Christian Epistolography. Mitchell, BIBL 53000 Flavius Josephus and Early Christian Literature. Mitchell, BIBL 53200 Hero Cults and Early Christianity. Martinez/Mitchell.

Entry requirement for international students

Students should have an Master of Arts degree or its equivalent with a good academic record from an accredited college or university. Students to all programs are required to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) the results are valid for 5 years. All international students whose native language is not English are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) having a score of 600 or higher on the old Paper Based TOEFL, 250 or higher on Computer Based TOEFL, or 104 or higher on the new Internet Based or International English Language Testing System (IELTS) having minimum required scores or an overall score of 7, with sub scores of 7 each are required for admission.

University of Chicago accepts IELTS*

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Doctoral

Awarding body

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Department name

Divinity School

Venue / office name

Divinity School

Address

1025 East 58th Street
Swift Hall
CHICAGO
Illinois
60637

Venue description

The Divinity School is located in Swift Hall, on the main quadrangle of the University's campus and in close proximity to the Divisions of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Cross-disciplinary work, a long-standing hallmark of the University, is strongly encouraged and in some respects institutionalized: many Divinity School faculty hold joint appointments with other departments in the University, students can and regularly do register for courses outside their specific academic location, and dissertation committees frequently feature coadvisers or readers from other parts of the University.

Telephone number

+1 773 702 8200

Is accommodation available at this venue?

Yes

Accommodation details

The University of Chicago is located in a unique residential neighborhood within the city of Chicago Hyde Park. As a graduate student at the University, students may take advantage of the University's large pool of affordable and conveniently located housing in the Hyde Park community. Nearly all of the University's students and over 60 percent of its faculty and staff live in the campus neighborhood. This makes for a very special sense of community and a lively intellectual atmosphere that complements the academic experience. The University owns and operates more than 1,300 apartments throughout the neighborhood for lease to graduate students. A spirit of cooperation, both among the tenants and between landlord and tenant, is the norm in the apartments. The most modern facility available to University of Chicago graduate students, the New Graduate Residence Hall (NGRH) is home to more than 120 students. NGRH is open only during the academic year it is closed during the summer quarter. The three story building is illuminated inside through large windows set in from an overhanging roof. Its spacious lobby has the feel of a luxury apartment building Rooms most of them singles with private bathrooms are well removed from these common areas, and include newer maple wood furniture, carpet, University telephone and internet connections and optional cable television. Students may prepare their own meals in a large common kitchen, which has many stoves and refrigerators and individual dry storage bins. Residents may purchase an optional meal plan to eat at specified campus dining halls . There are conference rooms for group study, a well-equipped exercise room, two music rooms with pianos and wireless access in most common areas. The NGRH is two blocks from the Law School and close to rail and bus lines. Public festivals and concerts are also scheduled on the Midway. The cost of attendance for Room and Board is $11,697.

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