Abdelazar

Someone on the results page posted that they were "notified in person by poi" that they were waitlisted for the Committee on the Study of Religion (CSR) at Harvard. So I would guess that NELC and CSR notifications may be out any day now. I haven't heard anything from Princeton Seminary. From the results page posts from last year, two people posted that PTS conducted Skype interviews for Hebrew Bible in late January, but there isn't anything posted about notifications or interviews with PTS this year for any program.

Doobie, I'm sorry to hear that. Which department/program did you apply to?

Just be careful that you don't end up like this guy: http://i.imgur.com/5NdSS4U.gif

A post on the results page on 2/13 claimed acceptance to NELC at UCLA via email on 2/8, spelling out both "University of Los Angeles California" and "Near Eastern Languages and Cultures" (so you can't find it if you just search for UCLA NELC). Can anyone claim that or has anyone heard of any other acceptances to the department?

Thanks for that, we all need some comic relief around this time.

The results page seems to show end of February to the middle of March for Harvard Divinity, CSR, and NELC for last year's decisions. This may be pure speculation but there are NELC faculty meetings scheduled for 2/17 and 3/10 on the calendar (http://nelc.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-nelc). But it's entirely possible that these faculty meetings are not at all related to admissions committee meetings.

Congrats! Your patience was rewarded!

Thanks for the info about timing. It may be good for all of us applying to schools affected by the weather lately to remember that decisions may come later than usual this year due to department meetings being postponed. Hang tight, everyone! I would guess, though, that the person who received the rejection and was recommended to apply to the MA program at Vanderbilt might not have been invited to interview which could explain why they received their notification earlier.

Their results notes explains "Email with recommendation to apply to MA." I'm guessing that recommendations to apply to MA or M* programs go out earlier, similar to the person in this thread above who received an email from Harvard saying that they could pass on their application to the MTS committee. Perhaps the Vanderbilt rejection was also a case of the person not having an MA or an MA in a different field. I interviewed at Vanderbilt last week and have not been contacted yet.

Yes, at least for the grad department of religion.

I received an invitation to interview for Hebrew Bible (PhD). I'm not sure if Prof. Seow has made the move out to Vanderbilt yet so I don't know if he will be at the event this week or not. We were told in an email that GDR finalists will receive their interview schedule after they check-in on campus Tuesday morning (2/9). I was contacted by Prof. Marbury, so I imagine that HB finalists will interview with him and perhaps Prof. Azzoni. Best wishes to everyone!

My main POI is Prof. Seow but I have some research interests in common with Prof. Marbury and Prof. Azzoni as well. I don't know for sure who is taking students right now and I am not even sure if Prof. Seow has made the move out to TN yet. Prof. Seow will be heading the Reception History section at the Mid-Atlantic regional SBL meeting at Loyola Maryland in March so anyone going would have a chance to talk with him in person then. Sorry that I can't be of more help; others may be better informed than I am! I had heard around October or November that Prof. Azzoni would not be staying at Vanderbilt so I didn't mention her on my personal statement, but after applying I was told that she would be staying. Maybe she has been made assistant professor now and the VDS website hasn't been updated yet to reflect that.

I did for Hebrew Bible this past weekend (1/24) and I am guessing that all the other grad dept of religion interview notifications went out around the same time.

Vanderbilt interview notifications for the graduate department of religion should be out as of 1/24.

Any update on whether Seow had made a definite decision or not?

I'm a little confused by your question. You asked about "authoritative Hebrew edition (editions?) of the LXX." If you are asking about the standard critical edition of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in Hebrew and Aramaic, it's the Stuttgartensia BHS for the single volume edition that any biblical Hebrew class would use. And as turktheman said, Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) is in process of being completed and you can find the volumes published so far in a library if you really need to do in-depth text critical work. If you're asking about the LXX--the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek (and there is more than one recension of this!)--the standard one volume edition is Rahlf's Septuaginta (ISBN: 1598561804). If you need to do more in-depth text critical work with the LXX, it's the Göttingen Septuagint or else the Cambridge Septuagint. Any good biblical/theological library should have them. Here's a pretty helpful orientation to the various critical editions: http://abramkj.com/2012/10/08/bhs-the-gottingen-septuagint-and-other-critical-editions-a-basic-orientation-to-what-they-are/. Most significant differences in the LXX will be noted in the apparatus of BHS, although you would have to use a separate edition of the LXX (e.g. Rahlf's, Göttingen, or Cambridge) for books that exist in the LXX in a very different form from the MT like the expansions ("Additions") to Esther or the different edition of Jeremiah. Any Bible software should also include an edition of the LXX (my BibleWorks software includes Rahlf's). If you're going to take a class and are serious about studying this, I think many professors will recommend to stay away from interlinears because they can become a "crutch." Thankfully, the NETS (New English Translation of the Septuagint) is available completely for free online: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/. Hope this helps! Text criticism can be difficult and confusing. Before you spend too much money on amazon, I'd recommend checking out from a library Emmanuel Tov's book Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible and looking through it as well as a copy of Rahlf's.

Anyone know what's the situation with the Hebrew Bible dept at Harvard? Elsewhere on GradCafe, people have reported that Machinist is retiring very soon. Is Levenson also near retirement? Any word new faculty soon? I'm planning on visiting and applying this year, so any advice would be appreciated.