Kuriakos

The NT colloquium rotates between Jewish backgrounds, Greco-Roman backgrounds, and early Christianity. For example, one year I had a colloquium on Josephus and Historiography, the next on Pompeii and Roman Domestic Life/Religion, and the next on the Adversus Iudaios tradition in the 2nd through 4th centuries. The specific topics change each year.

I'm fairly certain that Duke does not usually offer more than 50% funding for MA students

I did a ThM at Duke. It was ridiculously expensive, but every person I knew in the program who had the facility and inclination to do PhD work ended up in a program with the exception of two people who were Duke PhD or bust folks.

Strength and Honor, D.

I have a buddy at Rice in EC, so if that is where you end up I can connect you two. Don't give up hope on the others, though. Nothing is settled until it is settled.

I know their real names. I'll share them with you for a modest fee.

As a current Baylor student, let me just say that wantingtogetinsomewhere doesn't really know what s/he is talking about. There are current students from all over the map in terms of liberal to conservative. We've had incoming cohorts with students from Yale and DTS in the same group.

I'm fairly certain that Baylor notifications have gone out already. If you were not invited, do not fret yet. The waitlist is not created at Baylor until after interview weekend is over. Sometimes people who did not come to interview weekend even make it higher up on the waitlist than candidates who did. Nothing is settled for a while.

So long

Do an MTS at a more liberal school like Duke after the MDiv and try to make it clear from your application materials and writing sample that you aren't a fundy.

In terms of practical help, Metzger has a book that contains virtual all the contractions you end up seeing in minuscule manuscripts. Those are what make collating minuscules difficult.

It is a normal step. You shouldn't be worried. In many schools, PhD admits are glanced over by the graduate school to make sure there are no red flags. It is basically a formality.

I know it sucks to hold on that long, but a lot of schools like to wait until after the 4/15 deadline to send anything out to waitlisted candidates just to be sure.

I have my connections within the community and they all have indicated to me privately that Daniel is being forthright. Furthermore, others have received tenure with less at Fuller. That alone says a great deal. In any case, I still have a lot of love for Fuller and what it gave me. You will absolutely get a good education there. Is it worth that much tuition and an LA cost of living? Not when something of equal quality could be obtained elsewhere for much less.

As another Fuller grad, I'm going to agree with marXian's assessment. There seems to me to be a concerted effort to emphasize ministry resulting in the removal or dilution of several academically oriented degrees. I'm also disturbed by the firing of Daniel Kirk over doctrinal matters which I think signals a move to the right for Fuller. I doubt the denial of academic freedom will do Fuller any favors in terms of reputation. When you add in the fact that Fuller tuition is obscene and many other schools provide better assistance, I cannot in good conscience recommend Fuller to anyone however grateful I am for the good the faculty there has done me. P.S. I also agree with marXian that your grouping of programs is weird. I suspect you put Yale with PTS and Duke because someone from Fuller got into Yale NT a few years ago, but that is pretty atypical. As for pairing Baylor with TEDS, egads sir/madam, you must not know much about one or the other.

Nope. I'm somewhere else. I'm pretty sure the reason they didn't notify me was because I was near the bottom of the waitlist. They went through 3 people and never got to me, so I think I might have been a safety candidate!

When I applied, I was waitlisted at UT and was not sent an email initially. After seeing a bunch of rejections on gradcafe and not receiving word, I finally emailed and was told I was on the waitlist.

Have you tried emailing someone at Candler to discuss your situation? They may give you some options, and I've even heard of people having funding increased simply because they laid out their financial inability to attend a seminary without it.

The two people I know at Claremont received partial funding (I think 50% in one case and not sure how much for the other).

I should clarify, though, that 3 out of 4 had an American master's degree

At my school, we had several international applicants interview. We had two from the Netherlands, one from South Africa, and one from London.

I don't know why, but this is earlier than they have done it in the past.

Sorry, I wasn't being clear. Evangelical seminaries tend to give a handful of people good funding (many of these at my seminary were explicitly marked for future pastors or earmarked in some other way) and a pittance to everyone else unlike say Yale where basically everyone accepted gets a somewhat decent percentage of tuition covered.

Whoops! I missed that part. From what I've seen in my experience and that of friends, evangelical seminaries don't offer much funding.

I don't think Asbury is competitive at all, so I'm sure you will get in there.