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  1. Woah, this was posted a while ago. A colleague just forwarded this to me and asked me to weigh in. Nelder23, I'm currently a Ph.D. student in the program. Thanks for your interest! You raise some good questions that I'll try to address. 1) The funding is generous and ample. We have full tuition, medical insurance, a guaranteed stipend for the year with the possibility of summer-time fellowships. Whereas other religious studies programs at state university's are drying up, UT's is just coming into bloom. MBIGrad touched on this. 2) All of the faculty, not just in the Ancient Mediterranean Religion specialization, are welcoming and open. One of the reasons we attracted some really big name scholars, like Prof. Hackett, to UT is the collegial atmosphere of the program. Tom Tweed, although he's a specialist in American religious history, is one of the go to people for issues of method and theory. Also, as you probably know, Profs. Friesen and White are extremely happy here and producing some really interesting work; for example, they're both working on volumes for the Hermeneia commentary series (Philemon and the Revelation of John). 3) We are currently searching for two more faculty members, one in classical Judaism (open rank) and another in Biblical Greek (i.e., Philo, Josephus, NT and ECL, etc.). 4) In terms of MA work, every student earns an MA on the way to the PhD. Rather than offering a terminal MA, the RS department only accepts folks with the offer of full funding for five years. After completing the MA, there's no separate application process to get into the PhD program. You should know that every graduate student in the department has a master's degree already, but it sounds like you're already working on one. I'd encourage you to reach out to both Profs. Friesen and White, if you intend to apply. They're really friendly and love answering questions about the program. Feel free to message me, if you have any other questions.
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