近东方语言和文明哲学博士-希伯来圣经和古代近东

希伯来语圣经和古代近东旨在作为一个全面的标题，包括各种联合计划，这些计划结合了对圣经希伯来语和其他西北闪族语言的研究与NELC内其他领域以及神学院的结合。学生将在计划中选择以下两种途径之一：途径A使学生能够在受到圣经批评的指导下，以其他西北闪米特语和另一种主要的近东语言获得高水平的希伯来语能力。Track B的重点是在圣经希伯来语和其他西北闪族语言中获得较高的能力，同时对圣经的批评和释经进行广泛的培训。
Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East is intended as a comprehensive title to include a variety of joint programs combining the study of Biblical Hebrew and the other Northwest Semitic languages with other fields within NELC and with the Divinity School. Ideally, the common denominator between these two types of programs will be training in biblical criticism: students of the first category will be expected to attain a basic grounding in the various approaches to the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible while students in the second will be expected to complete at least the two-year level in a non-Northwest Semitic language. A typical program will include extensive course-work in Northwest Semitic philology, with primary emphasis on Biblical Hebrew, complemented by extensive course-work in another field of NELC or in the Divinity School and by course-work in the history and archaeology of the ancient Near East in preparation for a comprehensive examination in these areas. In any such program, the student will have a principal advisor in NELC and a second advisor to oversee the program in the other principal concentration, either for the second field within NELC or for the work done in the Divinity School. The comprehensive examinations in biblical criticism and in the exegesis of the Hebrew Bible will be administered by specialists in these areas in the Divinity School.