Paid Hebrew Bible Fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill

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See the attached announcement for those interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in Hebrew Bible.

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased
to announce that we are offering paid fellowships for doctoral students in Hebrew Bible
through the Ancient Mediterranean Religions subfield for the academic year 2020-2021. UNC’s
Department of Religious Studies is one of the top ranked graduate programs in religion. In
particular, the Department is known for its pedagogical training and for engaging contemporary
theories of religion. Graduate students would qualify to receive additional support from the
Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. For graduate students starting in Fall 2020, the application
deadline is December 10, 2019.

The doctoral program offers an opportunity for students to receive a broad based education in the
study of religion while also pursuing specialized training in the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near
Eastern context and the history of biblical interpretation. The faculty have strong interests in late
Second Temple Judaism as well.

Primary faculty in this area include:

David Lambert, associate professor, author of How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity,
and the Interpretation of Scripture (Oxford University Press, 2016), winner of the 2016 AAR Award for
Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Textual Studies.

Joseph Lam, assistant professor, author of Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the
Making of a Religious Concept (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Experts in other areas of the subfield in Ancient Mediterranean Religions include:

Bart Ehrman (history of early Christianity; New Testament studies)
Jodi Magness (early Judaism; archeology of Palestine)
Evyatar Marienberg (Rabbinic Judaism and Jewish law)
Zlatko Pleše (Gnosticism; Hellenistic religions and philosophy)

Located in North Carolina’s culturally rich and affordable Research Triangle, the program offers the
opportunity to work closely with faculty at nearby Duke University as well.

For more information, please contact David Lambert (dalambe@email.unc.edu), Joseph Lam
(jclam@email.unc.edu), or visit the Department’s website at religion.unc.edu.

UNC_PhD_2020-21.pdf

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FYI the attached flyer is 'unavailable.'

Also, anticipating potential confusing, this is a notice that UNC-CH is now offering a specific Hebrew Bible-track PhD. Correct? At first, I thought this was a fellowship for visiting graduate students or postdocs.