Monday, March 02, 2020

New biblical Hebrew program at GWU

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: Classics department faculty look to add biblical Hebrew option for students.
Members of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations plan to debut a Biblical Hebrew program next semester.

Students majoring or minoring in Classical and Ancient Near Eastern studies could previously fulfill their history, culture and language requirements only by taking two years of ancient Greek or classical Latin. Faculty said the new program will allow students to explore a different classical language to fulfill their language requirement and help the department meet a growing interest in Ancient Near Eastern studies.

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This is good news. This program has been in the planning since 2014.

Two members of the GWU Classics faculty make appearances on PaleoJudaica from time to time. Christopher Rollston is associate professor of Northwest Semitic languages and literature. Some posts on his work from the last few years are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and links. Eric Cline is professor of classics, anthropology and history. Some posts on his work are here, here, here, and links.

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