Just posted this today at the HBU School of Christian Thought blog. Reblogging for those who don’t catch the SCT site regularly.
Category Archives: Biblical Language programs
Here’s a piece that I just posted on our School of Christian Thought website at Houston Baptist University. I explore briefly what linguistics is, and why it is beneficial to study linguistics.
Linguistics Handouts
This spring I’m teaching a General Linguistics course at HBU that provides an entrée into the main subfields of linguistics: speech production (phonetics), sound patterns (phonology), word formation (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), aspects of meaning (semantics and pragmatics), and language change (historical and comparative linguistics). Our goal is to enable our BA and MA students to engage in linguistic analyses of Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek.
For those taking the course, and for those who aren’t but are interested in what we’re doing here at HBU, I’m making the handouts available here.
If you’re interested in our MABL (Master of Arts in Biblical Languages), go here. Information on the BA in Biblical Languages can be found here.
Official Announcement: HBU to begin MA in Biblical Languages in Aug 2009
Houston Baptist University has announced the inauguration of her newest M.A. program: the Master of Arts in Biblical Languages (MABL):
“Houston Baptist University will begin offering its tenth master’s degree program, the Master of Arts in Biblical Languages, in August 2009. In addition to permitting students to establish a master’s level proficiency in both Hebrew and Greek, the program will include work in linguistics, hermeneutics and Aramaic.
Students completing the 30 hours in biblical languages required to earn the degree will learn from three nationally and internationally recognized linguists who each work in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. The Master of Arts in Biblical Languages program will equip graduates to read the Bible and related literature in their original languages with an understanding of grammatical, syntactical, semantic, discursive, rhetorical, exegetical and hermeneutical issues.”
Read the whole press release here.
For a basic intro to the MABL, go here.
To apply for the program, go here.
To see program requirements, go here.
For MABL faculty, go here.
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