近东研究哲学博士-希伯来圣经和西北犹太教

自该系成立以来，希伯来圣经/西北犹太人学院的研究生课程致力于为学生提供语言工具，以便能够以其原始语言（古典希伯来语，阿拉姆语）学习希伯来圣经。希伯来语圣经的主要见证人有以下几种：希伯来语（希腊文），死海古卷（库姆兰希伯来语和阿拉姆语），塔古姆斯（阿拉姆语），以及较小的佩希塔（叙利亚语）和武尔盖特（拉丁语）。
Since the founding of the department, the graduate program in Hebrew Bible/Northwest Semitics has focused on providing students with the philological tools to be able to study the Hebrew Bible in its original languages (Classical Hebrew, Aramaic), as well as analyzing the various textual witnesses to the Hebrew Bible via primary texts: Septuagint (Greek), Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran Hebrew and Aramaic), Targums (Aramaic), and to a lesser extent the Peshitta (Syriac) and Vulgate (Latin). The study of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible forms the core of the program. Students read a wide variety of texts in Hebrew each semester. The three-year cycle of courses includes Archaic Biblical Poetry, Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomistic History (Book of Kings), Prophetic Literature (The Book of Ezekiel), Wisdom Literature (The Book of Job, Qohelet (Ecclesiastes)), and Persian Period Texts. The approach of each course varies yet common methodologies include textual criticism, historical linguistics, literary criticism, and the application of socio-scientific methods. <br>The Department of Near Eastern Studies was founded in 1883 and was the first program in the United States to offer a PhD in the field. Choose from four programs of study: Assyriology, Egyptology, Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Studies, and Near Eastern Archaeology/Near Eastern Art.