About the Department Undergraduate Program Graduate Program Graduate Admissions & Financial Aid Course Descriptions News and Events Department Directory    Faculty    Staff    Graduate Students Alumni Resources Hopkins in Egypt Today Umm el-Marra Excavations Digital Hammurabi The Archaeological Collection Contact Information Search Near Eastern Studies: Department of Near Eastern Studies 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 410-516-7499 phone 410-516- 5218 fax nes@jhu.edu		Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Philology: Concentration in Hebrew Bible Subjects to be Studied Major Language    Biblical Hebrew Required Minor Languages Akkadian or Egyptian     Aramaic Ugaritic     Historical Hebrew Grammar Biblical Criticism    History of Scholarship    Contemporary Methods History Cycle    (See General Requirements) Special Subjects    Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible     Northwest Semitic Epigraphy           Phoenician           Old Aramaic           Inscriptional Hebrew           Transjordan Texts     Archaeology of Syria-Palestine Qumran Optional Languages    Coptic     Rabbinic Hebrew Syriac Comprehensive Examinations Four comprehensive examinations will be written:     1. Biblical Hebrew     2. Biblical Criticism     3. Akkadian or Egyptian     4. History of the Ancient Near East Return to Graduate Program Page

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