Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. Academic Program Description

(NEW) A program that focuses on one or more of the extinct Semitic and/or Non-Semitic languages spoken in the ancient Near East, including those used to write historical Jewish and Christian religious texts. Includes instruction in languages such as Egyptian/Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Aramaic, Cannanite, Phonecian, Samarian, Ugaritic, Syriac, Mandean, Hattic, Elamite, Hurrian, Hittite, Urartian, Lydian, Luwian, Lycian, Palaic, Sabaean/South Arabian, and other associated languages, plus allied disciplines such as philology, epigraphy, papyrology, numismatics, and textual studies.

Related Occupations

• Foreign Language and Literature Teachers
• Interpreters and Translators

Colleges Offering this Curriculum

• American Baptist Seminary of the West
• Asbury College
• Bryn Mawr College
• Carson-Newman College
• Church Divinity School of the Pacific
• Columbia International University
• Concordia University
• Concordia University-Ann Arbor
• Concordia University-Wisconsin
• Cornerstone University
• Dallas Theological Seminary
• Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
• Franciscan School of Theology
• Howard Payne University
• Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
• Luther College
• Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• North Central University
• Northland Baptist Bible College
• Olivet Nazarene University
• Ouachita Baptist University
• Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
• Pacific School of Religion
• Southern Nazarene University
• Trinity International University
• Union University
• University of Chicago
• University of Washington - Seattle
• Walla Walla College
• Yale University
• York College