05.14.07

Johns Hopkins University?

Posted in Education at 8:20 pm by eliana

Thanks to a tip from Q, I checked out Johns Hopkins University’s department of Near Eastern Studies.

It actually sounds quite interesting. A Ph.D in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Philology from Johns Hopkins? Who would have thought? I always kinda sterotyped them as the “medical” school.

4 Comments »

  1. drqohelet said,

    May 15, 2007 at 8:18 am

    O, padawan, have you not heard of William Foxwell Albright, Frank Moore Cross, David Noel Freedman? Granted, it’s a different program than it was in the ’40’s and ’50’s; but Johns Hopkins should definitely make you think ANE.

  2. aboulet said,

    May 17, 2007 at 12:23 am

    With a Ph.D. it’s all about who your advisor is and how well he is respected in the academic community if you want to find tenure at a decent school. Like the guy before me said, it isn’t the program it was back in the mid-20th century. It might seem a bit shallow, but having a highly respected scholar as your advisor is the way to go. Hopkins is running short on those these days.

  3. drqohelet said,

    May 19, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    I think you misunderstand me, aboulet. If I was starting out a Ph.D. right now, I’d definitely be applying to Johns Hopkins because they have the strongest program in the States.

    They have Egyptologists, NorthWest Semiticists, Biblicists, and Assyriologists all under one roof. As for the names: Ted Lewis, P Kyle McCarter, Raymond Westbrook, Jerrold Cooper and Betsy Bryan are all well respected scholars. Ted would be a great adviser, and his pursuits are quite close to Mandy’s.

    BTW: your advisers’ creds wont’ get you tenure. They’ll get your foot in the door, but it is definitely publish or perish.

  4. eliana said,

    May 19, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    Jim - it’s definitely on my list now - thanks for pointing the school out to me as a possibility. The location is also much closer to both Calvin and I’s families which makes it doubly appealing to me, rather than staying up in good ol’ New England for longer than necessary.

    Art - thanks for dropping by and the thoughts! I forwarded a link to the program on to the Rabbi, it’ll be interesting to see what he thinks. ;-)

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