I'm not studying pure Theology - I get three courses per year in "Biblical and Theological Studies", and the other half is ancient history. So that's two historically or theologically oriented courses focussing anywhere from pre-Babylonian captivity Israel to the modern period, and from my second year, the option of one language.
I picked Greek. I don't get to study it in my "Ancient History and Archaeology" course, since that's taught in translation. But I'll need it in a couple of years: I'm really really hoping to get into the PhD programme.
(Trinity's religions and theology department, like their classics department, is tiny, and filled with professors who have learned to be jacks and janes of all trades, so to speak.)
I figure I'll learn Hebrew eventually, though, at some point after (Latin and [more] French and German and) Aramaic and Egyptian, if I get into full-time research. I have this itch, you see, to investigate religious practice in Egypt and Syria-Palestine (and, possibly, North Africa) from the late Dynastic period down to late antiquity, and its relationship to social change and continuity.
(This possibly means I will never be a successful novelist, since there are only so many hours in the day.)
Yeah, I'm a freak. But it's just so damned interesting.
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:53 pm (UTC)I picked Greek. I don't get to study it in my "Ancient History and Archaeology" course, since that's taught in translation. But I'll need it in a couple of years: I'm really really hoping to get into the PhD programme.
(Trinity's religions and theology department, like their classics department, is tiny, and filled with professors who have learned to be jacks and janes of all trades, so to speak.)
I figure I'll learn Hebrew eventually, though, at some point after (Latin and [more] French and German and) Aramaic and Egyptian, if I get into full-time research. I have this itch, you see, to investigate religious practice in Egypt and Syria-Palestine (and, possibly, North Africa) from the late Dynastic period down to late antiquity, and its relationship to social change and continuity.
(This possibly means I will never be a successful novelist, since there are only so many hours in the day.)
Yeah, I'm a freak. But it's just so damned interesting.