Comments on: Survivor: University Edition

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:27:57 +0000

I heard programs at U of Texas and UCSB recommended. Which ones have you decided not to apply to and why?

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:24:06 +0000

I am also applying. My short list has (no order) Yale, Harvard,U of Penn., Johns Hopkins, and Notre Dame, so far. I know full funding is automatic in some of these if you are accepted. Do you happen to know if it’s true for all of these? I was once accepted to Brandeis, but they wanted me to redo my Master’s and didn’t offer me enough funding to make it feasible.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:02:28 +0000

I’m looking at a number of the above schools (specifically, Harvard, NYU, Penn, Brandeis and Emory). I’m also looking at the Bernard Revel School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, although I don’t suppose that is on anyone’s list here…

By: trisha

trisha — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:27:56 +0000

Hi guys, I just happened across your blog…I’m applying to NELC programs this fall in HB text. crit. and your list mirrors mine almost exactly, though I put NYU on there and am only applying to 8 from my list. If you want to discuss the merits/demerits of each program, I’d rather email than post on a semi-public forum. On a side note, it is exciting to “see” another female in this field!

By: Charles Halton

Charles Halton — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:55:33 +0000

Nice list! I think any school on this list will be fantastic. All the best in your applications.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:37:14 +0000

Art,

At Yale, the program we’re looking at is in the Religion Department.

Thanks for the JTS suggestion!

Mandy

By: art

art — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:23:18 +0000

Yale no longer takes Ph.D. students for Northwest Semitic, Bible, Comparative Semitics or for Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Unless you are interested in Egyptology or Assyriology only, then the programs there are defunct. If you're not against going over seas, I'd check out Hebrew University in Jerusalem as well as Oxford. It would be worth looking into Jewish Theological Seminary (Ph.D. programs in Ancient Judaism as well as Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages).