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Approved Degree Plan

Master of Arts

Concentration: Old Testament

Core Courses

• Information Research and Resources
• Academic Writing Seminar
• Biblical Hermeneutics
• Spiritual Formation (1st year)
• Old Testament 1
• Old Testament 2
• Unity of the Bible
• One New Testament course

Language Requirements (21 credit hours)

• Biblical Hebrew 1
• Biblical Hebrew 2
• Hebrew Exegesis
• Readings in Hebrew Old Testament
• Biblical Aramaic & Semitic
• NT Greek 1
• NT Greek 2

Bible Courses (9 credit hours)

• Choose any BINT, BNTB or BOTB course
  (see course rotation schedule)

Electives (9 credit hours)

• Choose any Divinity M.A. level course
  (see course rotation schedule)

Culminating Experience

• Choose Thesis or Comprehensive Exams

Total: 60 credit hours

Up to 30 credit hours towards the M.A. may be taken off-campus through the School of Divinity online learning program. Courses taken in Washington D.C., transferred from another institution, taken as a tutorial or as an independent study count as off-campus hours.

The courses listed are approved to fulfill the requirements for the Master of Divinity. Course descriptions can be found in the University Catalog. Not all courses are available every year, please see the course rotation schedule for more details.