Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 1 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— Overview The Hebrew Bible concentration offers two comprehensive examinations, one a history exam, the other a literature exam. • Students specializing in Hebrew Bible take both. • Students specializing in New Testament often take one of the two. • Students outside the Bible Area often take one of the two. Preparation includes: training in ancient languages; coursework; individual reading The Hebrew Bible concentration also offers one language exam. See last page.

Exam I. History and Religion of Israel and its Ancient Near Eastern Setting The exam tests students’ knowledge of the essential issues involved in the emergence, diversity, identity, social structures, and cultural expressions of the Israelites in the biblical period, ca. 1200–300 BCE, i.e., Iron I–Persian periods. Students have eight hours to complete two essays. Language Training •

Students in the Bible Area: Hebrew and one additional relevant language.

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Students outside the Bible area: Hebrew is strongly recommended.

Coursework •

Students outside the Bible Area are strongly urged to take BIBL 31000: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible and at least two seminars or exegetical courses, which involve reading biblical texts in relation to their broader religious and cultural contexts.

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Students in the Bible Area should take several more, as well as courses on the ancient Near East offered in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Individual Reading •

All students taking the History exam are expected to read the primary and secondary works in the bibliography below.

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Each student, together with her/his examiner, will define any three specific topics of special interest and augment the primary and secondary bibliography accordingly. The student is responsible to compile the final bibliography and receive approval from the examiner.

Bibliography 1) Careful reading and knowledge of the relevant biblical literature. 2) Primary non-biblical ancient Near Eastern sources (in translation):

MYTH AND EPIC

Epic of Gilgamesh; Descent of Ishtar; Atrahasis; Enuma Elish; Anzu; Etana Kirta; Ba’al Cycle; Aqhat

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 2 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— Additional myths: Jacobsen, The Harps that Once…, 143–272

PROPHECY

Mari; Neo-Assyria

HISTORIOGRAPHY

Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid inscriptions: COS 2:261–316 Northwest Semitic inscriptions: COS 2:77–173

LEGAL LITERATURE

All texts in Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon Sefire Treaties Hittite Treaties and Laws: COS 2:93–119

MAGIC, RITUAL, DIVINATION, AND WITCHCRAFT

COS 1:416–18, 421–26 Maqlû Akitu (M.E. Cohen, The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East, 441–47)

WISDOM

All texts in Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature COS 1:485–95 Amenemope

3) Secondary sources:

ON THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST IN GENERAL Bottero, Jean. Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Bottero, Jean. Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Bryce, Trevor. The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. Charpin, Dominique. Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Jacobsen, T. The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Kuhrt, Amélie. The Ancient Near East, c. 3000 BCE–330 BCE. 2 volumes. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Oppenheim, A. Leo. Ancient Mesopotamia. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1964. Pardee, Dennis. Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Roaf, M. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990. Stökl, Jonathan. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison. Leiden: Brill, 2012. van der Toorn, Karel. Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life. Leiden: Brill, 1996. Winter, Irene. On the Art in the Ancient Near East. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2010: vol. 1, chaps. 1–4, 9, 13, 15.

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 3 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— ON ANCIENT ISRAEL IN PARTICULAR Albertz, Rainer. A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period. 2 vols. Translated by John Bowden. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994. Alpert-Nakhai, Beth. Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2001. Alt, Albrecht. Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966, pp. 3–86. (Orig. pub. German, 1959) Barstad, Hans. History and the Hebrew Bible: Studies in Ancient Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern Historiography. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. Blenkinsopp, Joseph, A History of Prophecy in Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. Cross, Frank M. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973. Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992. Grabbe, Lester L. Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? London: T&T Clark, 2007. Grabbe, Lester L. Priests, Prophets, Diviners, Sages: A Socio-Historical Study of Religious Specialists in Ancient Israel. Valley Forge, Penn.: Trinity Press, 1995. Haran, Menahem. Temples and Temple Service in Ancient Israel: An Inquiry into Biblical Cult Phenomena and the Historical Setting of the Priestly School. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978. Kaufman, Yehezkel. The Religion of Israel. Trans. & Abridged 1960. Repr. Schocken, 1972, pp. 1–244, 291–340. (Orig. pub. 4 vols., Hebrew, 1937–1956) Keel, Othmar, and Uehlinger, Christoph. Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. Levine, Lee I. Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period (538 B.C.E.–70 C.E.). Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2002. López-Ruiz, Carolina. When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Meyers, Carol L. Households and Holiness: the Religious Culture of Israelite Women. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005. Miller, J. Maxwell, and J. Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah. 2nd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. Pedersen, Johannes. Israel: Its Life and Culture. 2 vols. 1926–1940. Repr. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. Rollston, Christopher. Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010. Sanders, Seth L. The Invention of Hebrew. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Smith, Mark S. The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2002. Stern, Ephraim. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible Volume II: The Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian Periods, 732–322 BCE. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 4 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— Suriano, Matthew J. The Politics of Dead Kings: Dynastic Ancestors in the Book of Kings and Ancient Israel. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Van Seters, John. In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. de Vaux, Roland. Ancient Israel: Its Life and Institutions. 2nd ed. 1965. Repr. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1997. Wellhausen, Julius. Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel. Trans. 1885. Repr. New York: Meridian, 1957. (Orig. pub. German, 1878) Westbrook, Raymond. Property and the Family in Biblical Law. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991. Wilson, Robert. Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

Exam II. Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting The exam tests a student’s thorough knowledge of the literature of the Hebrew Bible and ability to interpret with sophistication, accuracy, and insight. Competence depends upon the acquisition of literary, linguistic, and critical skills (i.e., text-, source-, form-, tradition-, and literary criticisms) for translation and interpretation of specific passages, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ability to bring a range of ancient Near Eastern evidence to bear on the composition and significance of biblical texts in their cultural context. Students have four hours to complete one comprehensive close analysis of a passage and one essay (details below). Exam Format Part I: Comprehensive close reading The exam offers a choice of two chapters from the pre-selected 120 chapters. The students will execute a close reading of one of the two chapters. The reading will include complete translation of the text; responses to specific questions posed in the exam; and comments upon matters identified by the student as most significant to interpretation of the text. All sections should be informed by the history of scholarship and interact with text-critical evidence for the passage, as warranted. (Copies of relevant manuscripts will be provided). Part II: Synthetic essay The exam offers a choice of two questions about biblical texts and the history of scholarship on key issues in biblical discourse (e.g., genre types, parallelism, biblical idioms). The student will answer one. Use of BHS and Greek and Aramaic dictionaries is allowed, but no other tools. Language Training •

Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic

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Students in the Bible Area (both NT & HB) must have already completed a separate departmental Hebrew exam

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All students should consult the examining professor *long* in advance

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 5 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— Coursework •

Students outside the Bible Area: at least two text courses; a seminar is strongly encouraged

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Students in the Bible Area: at least four text and/or seminar courses

Individual Reading •

All students taking the Literary exam are expected to read the primary and secondary works in the bibliography below.

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In addition, each student, together with her/his examiner, will select 120 chapters for special concentration, and develop a list of commentaries and key studies with which to prepare the chapters selected.

Bibliography 1) Presumed: knowledge of the entire Hebrew Bible 2) Primary reading from the Hebrew Bible: A) Pentateuch: 30 chapters • 10 chapters of law, including sections of the Covenant, Holiness, and Deuteronomic Codes • 2 chapters of early poetry • 18 more chosen by student

B) Other historiographical works: 25 chapters • 21 chapters: Joshua 1, 24; Judges 4, 5; 1 Samuel 12; 2 Samuel 7; 1 Kings 8 (selections), 18; 2 Kings 17-20, 22-23; Nehemiah 7, 9, 10; Jonah • 4 more chosen by student from Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, EzraNehemiah

C) Prophetic literature: 32 chapters • Isaiah 1, 2 (first half), 5:1-7, 6, 7, 11, 14, one chapter within 24-26, 40, 52(end)-53, 66; Jeremiah 1, 2, 7, 2 chapters of confessions, 31, 36; Ezekiel 8, 14, 18, 38-39; Hosea 1-3 and 10 additional verses; Amos 2, 7, 9; Micah 6; Haggai or Zechariah 1 or Zechariah 3; Daniel 2, 7

D) Writings: 20 chapters • 8 psalms, reflecting different genres • 2 chapters from Proverbs, one from 1-9, one from 10-31 • Job 1-3, 38 • 1 from Song of Songs • 1 from Qohelet • 1 from Lamentations • 3 more chosen by student

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 6 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— E) Additional • any 10–20 more (depending on genre) all chosen by student

3) Primary non-biblical ancient Near Eastern sources (in translation)

MYTH AND EPIC

Epic of Gilgamesh; Descent of Ishtar; Atrahasis; Enuma Elish; Anzu; Etana Kirta; Ba’al Cycle; Aqhat Additional myths: Jacobsen, The Harps that Once…, 143–272

PROPHECY

Mari; Neo-Assyria

HISTORIOGRAPHY

Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid inscriptions: COS 2:261–316 Northwest Semitic inscriptions: COS 2:77–173

LEGAL LITERATURE

All texts in Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon Sefire Treaties Hittite Treaties and Laws: COS 2:93–119

MAGIC, RITUAL, DIVINATION, AND WITCHCRAFT

COS 1:416–18, 421–26 Maqlû Akitu (M.E. Cohen, The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East, 441–47)

WISDOM

All texts in Lambert, Babylonian Wisdom Literature COS 1:485–95 Amenemope, Onchsheshonqy, Sinuhe, Ahiqar

DEAD SEA SCROLLS 4) Secondary sources

INTRODUCTIONS Driver, S.R. Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament, rev. ed. New York: Meridian, 1956. Rofé, Alexander. Introduction to the Literature of the Hebrew Bible. Jerusalem: Simor, 2009. Schmid, Konrad, The Old Testament: A Literary History. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012.

CANON, TEXT, AND VERSIONS Davies, Philip R. Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998. Hurowitz, Victor Avigdor. “‘Proto-Canonization’ of the Torah: A Self-Portrait of the Pentateuch in Light of Mesopotamian Writings,” in ed. H. Kreisel, Study and Knowledge in Jewish Thought. Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2006, 31–48 (online: http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/cjt/files/Knowledge/Hurowitz.pdf). Haran, Menahem. “On Archives, Libraries and the Order of the Biblical Books,” in The Bible in Light of its Interpreters, 223-34. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1994.

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 7 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— _____. “Book-Size and the Device of Catch-Lines in the Biblical Canon,” JJS 36 (1985): 1-11. _____. "Book-Scrolls at the Beginning of the Second Temple Period: The Transition from Papyrus to Skins." HUCA 54 (1983): 111-122. _____. "Book-Scrolls in Israel in Pre-Exilic Times." JJS 33 (1982): 161-173. _____. "Book-Size and Thematic Cycles in the Pentateuch." In Hebräische Bibel und ihre zweifache Nachgeschichte, 165-176. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1990. _____. "More Concerning Book-Scrolls in Pre-Exilic Times." JJS 35 (1984): 84-85. _____. "Codex, Pinax, and Writing Slat.” Scripta Classica Israelica 15 (1996): 212-22. Tov, Emanuel. Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. 3rd edition. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011.

PROSE NARRATIVE GENRES Gunkel, Hermann. The Stories of Genesis. Vallejo, CA: BIBAL, 1994.  Sternberg, Meir. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1987. Van Seters, John. In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Wilson, Robert R. Genealogy and History in the Biblical World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

POETRY Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Poetry. New York: Basic, 1985. Dobbs-Allsopp, F.W. “Poetry, Hebrew.” In: New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 2009. Kugel, James. The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and its History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

LEGAL LITERATURE Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Poetry. New York: Basic, 1985. Barmash, Pamela. “The Narrative Quandary: Cases of Law in Literature.” VT 54 (2004): 1-16. Chavel, Simeon. “‘Oracular Novellae’ and Biblical Historiography: Through the Lens of Law and Narrative.” Clio 39 (2009): 1–27. _____. “Biblical Law,” in Z. Talshir, ed., The Literature of the Hebrew Bible: Introductions and Studies (2 vols., Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2011), 1: 227–272 [Hebrew]. Muffs, Yochanan. Love and Joy: Law, Language, and Religion in Ancient Israel. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992, 67-95. Paul, Shalom. M. Studies in the Book of the Covenant in the Light of Cuneiform and Biblical Law. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2006.

HISTORICAL WORKS A) Pentateuch

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 8 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— Baden, Joel S. The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. _____. J, E, and the Redaction of the Pentateuch. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 68. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. Dozeman, T. and K. Schmid, eds. A Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. SBLSymp 34. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006. Knohl, I. The Sanctuary of Silence: The Priestly Torah and The Holiness School. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995. Nihan, Christophe. From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch. FAT/II 25. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. Noth, Martin. A History of Pentateuchal Traditions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972, 1-71, 252-259. Rad, Gerhard von. The Form-Critical Problem of the Hexateuch and Other Essays. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966, 1-78. Rendtorff, Rolf. The Problem of the Process of Transmission in the Pentateuch. JSOTSup 89; trans. J.J. Scullion; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990. Stackert, Jeffrey. Rewriting the Torah: Literary Revision in Deuteronomy and the Holiness Legislation. FAT 52. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. Weinfeld, Moshe, Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. Wellhausen, Julius. Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel. New York: Meridian, 1957.

B) Deuteronomistic History Halpern, Baruch. “Text and Artifact : Two Monologues?” In Archaeology of Israel Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997, 311-341. Knoppers, Gary. Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993. McKenzie, Steven. “Deuteronomistic History,” ABD 2: 160-68. Na'aman, Nadav. 1994. “The 'Conquest of Canaan' in the Book of Joshua and in History.” In: Finkelstein, I. and Na'aman, N. eds. From Nomadism to Monarchy. Jerusalem: 218-281. Noth, Martin. The Deuteronomistic History. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1991. Rost, Leonhard. The Succession to the Throne of David. Translation of Überlieferung von der Thronnachfolge Davids. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1926. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1982.

C) Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah Japhet, Sara. The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought. Frankfurt am Main; New York: P. Lang, 1989. McKenzie, Steven. Chronicler’s Use of The Deuteronomistic History. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1985. Shaver, J. R. Torah and the Chronicler’s History Work: An Inquiry into the Chronicler's

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 9 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— References to Laws, Festivals, and Cultic Institutions in Relationship to Pentateuchal Legislation. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1989.

PROPHECY & APOCALYPTIC Blenkinsopp, Joseph. A History of Prophecy in Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, Revised ed. 1996.  Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998. Davis, Ellen F. Swallowing the Scroll: Textuality and the Dynamics of Discourse in Ezekiel’s Prophecy. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1989. Holladay, Jr., John S. “Assyrian Statecraft and the Prophets of Israel,” HTR 63 (1970): 29–51. Machinist, Peter. “Assyria and its Image in First Isaiah.” JAOS 103 (1983): 719–37.

WRITINGS Fox, Michael. The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Perdue, Leo. The Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008. Seybold, Klaus. Introducing the Psalms. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1990. 

LITERARY RELIGION Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge, 1966. Kaufman, Yekezkel. The Religion of Israel: From its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile. Translated and abridged by Moshe Greenberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. Weinfeld, Moshe. Social Justice in Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East. Minneapolis: Fortress; Jerusalem: Magnes, 1995.

LANGUAGE Hurvitz, Avi. A Linguistic Study of the Relationship Between the Priestly Source and the Book of Ezekiel: A New Approach to an Old Problem. Paris: J. Gabalda, 1982. Joosten, Jan. “The Distinction Between Classical and Late Biblical Hebrew as Reflected in Syntax.” Hebrew Studies 46 (2005): 327-39. Polak, Frank H. “Style is More than the Person: Sociolinguistics, Literary Culture and the Distinction between Written and Oral Narrative.” Pages 38-103 in Biblical Hebrew. Studies in Chronology and Typology. Edited by Ian Young. JSOTSup 369. London/ New York: T & T Clark, 2003. Barr, James. Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament. Oxford: Clarendon, 1968.

CRITICAL METHODS Barton, John. Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study. Revised and enlarged. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996. Dobbs-Alsopp, F.W. "Rethinking Historical Criticism." Biblical Interpretation 7 (1999): 235-71.

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 10 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— Fishbane, Michael. Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985. Seeligmann, Isac Leo. “Hebraïsche Erzählung und biblische Geschichtsschreibung.” In Gesammelte Studien zur hebräischen Bibel. Ed. E. Blum. Forschungen zur Alten Testament 41. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004, 119–36, or: ‫"סיפורת עברית‬ "‫והיסטוריוגרפיה מקראית‬, in: ‫מחקרים בספרות המקרא‬. Ed. A. Hurvitz et al. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1992, 46–61. Tigay, Jeffrey. ed. Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.

Bible Area: Hebrew Bible page 11 of 11 Comprehensive & Language Exams ———————————————————————————————————— Hebrew Language Exams University of Chicago Divinity School There are two doctoral level Hebrew language exams for students in the Bible area in the Divinity School. Students whose focus is the Hebrew Bible must complete Exam A, while students whose focus is New Testament must complete Exam B. Exam A: This exam covers two hundred (200) chapters (listed below). In addition, this exam will include a section of sight passages consistent with the types of texts included among the chapters prepared for the exam. Genesis 1-3, 6-9, 11, 18-19, 22, 37, 49 Exodus 2-4, 7-12, 15, 19-21, 24-25:9, 32-34, 40 Leviticus 4, 8-9, 16, 19-20, 23, 25 Numbers 5-6, 13-14, 16-17, 19, 22-24 Deuteronomy 5-6:9, 12, 15-16, 18, 25-26, 32-34 Joshua 1, 3-4, 6, 12, 24 Judges 3-6, 9, 12-17 1 Samuel 1-4, 7, 11, 15-18, 28, 31 2 Samuel 1, 6-7 11-21 1 Kings 1-3, 11-12, 18, 21 2 Kings 2, 4, 17-19, 21-23 Isaiah 1, 6-7, 11, 14, 40, 53, 66 Jeremiah 1-2, 7, 20, 31, 36 Ezekiel 1-3, 8, 14, 18, 38-39

Hosea 1-3, 11-12 Amos 1-2, 7, 9 Jonah 1-4 Micah 6 Zechariah 3 Psalms 1, 19, 22, 24, 89, 104 Proverbs 7, 31 Job 1-3, 38, 42 Song 5 Ruth 1-4 Qohelet 1, 3, 12 Lamentations 3 Esther 1-10 Daniel 2, 7 Ezra 9 Neh 7, 9, 10 1 Chronicles 21 2 Chronicles 33-35

Exam B: This exam covers thirty (30) chapters, of which twenty (25) are prescribed here. The remaining five (5) chapters should be chosen by the student in consultation with the examiner. Torah: Gen 1–3, 22; Exod 20–23; Lev 16, 19; Deut 12, 33 Prophets: 1 Sam 2; 2 Sam 7; Isa 40; Jer 1, 7; Ezek 18; Amos 5 Writings: Pss 22, 150; Qoh 1, 3; Song 4:1–5:1; Prov 1