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I agree: go ahead and include it with (under review) following the entry. However, if you're notified of acceptance, make sure you send a revised CV or notification of your great news to your potential advisor/Adcom. Good luck!

If any of you have questions about UVa, particularly their JCA program, feel free to PM me. Good luck!

Univ. of Virginia, in the Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity Ph.D. program (likely focusing on NT/Patristics). Excited to be living in Charlottesville for the next five years!

I think NTStudent is more or less right. I might only add that even better than an SBL/AAR presentation is publication in a top-notch peer-reviewed journal. I got a piece in NovT, and I think this was the single most important item in my application. I'd encourage people to try that route first.

I've submitted to SBL's BAMM (Bible in Ancient and Modern Media) section. Would be fun to see some of you in Baltimore next fall!

It's on my application page, at the bottom.

Check the bottom of the page. Mine says: "DECISION STATUS: AVAILABLE" with a link to the decision page. Given that I haven't even received an e-mail yet, I wouldn't say for sure that all the acceptances have been posted.

That would be me! No e-mail or anything yet; I just randomly checked the website and it had a decision posted with a link to a form letter saying that I'd been accepted and more info would be forthcoming. Sorry, no info beyond that, but I'd recommend checking your online app status. And it's always possible that different programs are posting notifications at different times, so take this with a grain of salt.

How many names are usually on the wait lists at top-tier schools, e.g., Duke?

Endless Ashley -- any idea which subfields have extended the offers? I'm curious about JCA in particular.

I think luciernaga is on the right track: my take-away from UVa was that they're most concerned with "fit," as demonstrated primarily by your SoP. And I do wonder how important writing samples really are: I can't imagine, for instance, that Duke reads through most (any?) of the writing samples when they've got hundreds of apps for a couple of spots.

NTStudent, I'm applying to UVa, as well as, among others, Marquette - you got in there last admissions cycle, I take it? Good luck to you!

Hi all: I'm happy to share any news I receive on interview/admissions decisions with you all over the coming months. Broadly speaking, my research interests involve the reception and history of interpretation of both Jewish and Christian Scriptures. Scholars such as Markus Bockmuehl, Christopher Rowland, and Margaret Mitchell have sparked my interest in Gadamer and his concept of Wirkungsgeshichte as a supplement to the traditional historical-critical method and a means of connecting and illuminating other areas of study such as textual criticism, narrative criticism, and biblical theology. I am also intrigued by recent insights in the areas of orality and textuality and how these might bear on the traditioning process. Most specifically, I'd say I am particularly interested in early Christian reception of biblical texts with an eye to patristic theological development and hermeneutics. I'm applying to UVa, Duke, Marquette, and Wheaton. I'm curious what will happen: on the one hand, I have the baggage of coming from a conservative seminary, but on the other, I have good GRE scores and have an article being published in Novum Testamentum next spring. We'll see!!