This post almost received the title “We’re not dead yet!” and indeed, neither Mandy or I are anywhere near death. Ugaritic exams simply cut into one’s blogging time. Regardless, Earl has a question on writing a Master’s Thesis. His thinking was generated by Dr. Stackhouse’s recent post. There are a few comments on Stackhouse’s blog, and Earl mentions one in particular. To be fair, Earl is into that theology stuff, so his is hardly a biblical studies degree–but I doubt that the fields are so different that the question doesn’t apply to those of us in biblical studies.

I’m certainly no expert on such things. All of the Hebrew Bible faculty here at Gordon-Conwell are of the opinion that it doesn’t help you get into a PhD program, and that further course work is probably more valuable to the majority of students. At this point, I seriously doubt that I will write a thesis (though I can’t speak for Mandy) for my Master’s work. I can certainly see the value of it, and I’d love to write one, but it is an issue of time; at this point I simply think additional course work would be more beneficial to me.