nejs IDEAS. IMAGINATION. IMPACT. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY THE DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN AND JUDAIC STUDIES GRADUATE STUDIES

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1 nej BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY THE DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN AND JUDAIC STUDIES GRADUATE STUDIES IDEAS. IMAGINATION. IMPACT.

2 WHY NEJS? One of the larget and mot divere program of it kind, NEJS i dedicated to intellectual openne and engagement with critical quetion of hitory, literature, religion and culture relating to the Bible and the Ancient Near Eat, Jewih tudie and Arabic and Ilamic civilization. At Brandei, you can purue a graduate degree with leading cholar dedicated to the finet intruction, mentoring and preparation of tudent for career in academia or the profeional world.

3 PHD PROGRAMS At the PhD level, the department offer three independent track. BIBLE AND ANCIENT NEAR EAST The Hebrew Bible in it original language, tudied through the rich and varied prim of Near Eatern text, language, hitorie and religion. JEWISH STUDIES The Jewih people hitory, religion, literature and thought, from ancient to modern period and panning divere geographical region. ARABIC AND ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS The religion, literature and intellectual tradition of the Ilamic world with a focu on Arabic-peaking region. IMAGE ON LEFT: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY T-S 8J16.18r

4 MA PROGRAMS MA tudent may chooe to concentrate in one of the three track of the PhD program or deign a peronalized curriculum through the divere area of expertie among our faculty. In addition to the independent NEJS MA, the department upport three dual-degree program. > > Near Eatern and Judaic Studie and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studie > > Near Eatern and Judaic Studie and Horntein: the Jewih Profeional Leaderhip Program > > Near Eatern and Judaic Studie and Coexitence and Conflict Studie

5 THE NEJS APPROACH TEXT CONTEXT METHOD The NEJS approach tree working with text in their original language, in their hitorical context, and in dialogue with cutting-edge method in the humanitie and ocial cience. Language expertie enable tudent to hear voice from the pat firthand, open archive to new dicoverie and allow for original reearch. An emphai on context undercore that cultural artifact cannot be undertood apart from the world in which they were produced. Methodological ophitication trengthen reearch and prepare tudent to work with colleague in the variegated dicipline of hitory, literature, philoophy, ociology, gender tudie and religiou tudie. With thee three cord, NEJS tudent engage the pat while tanding at the vanguard of contemporary cholarhip. The threefold cord i not eaily broken. Eccleiate 4:12

6 RE AMERICAN JUDAISM ISRAEL STUDIES SEPHARDIC STUDIES AKKADIAN, ARABIC, JUDEO RABIC, ARAMAIC, HITTITE RUSSIAN JEWRY HOLOCAUST STUDIES YIDDISH LITERATURE DAISM EUROPEAN JEWISH HISTORY WOMEN S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES NEA STERN THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF JEWISH EDUCATION CLASSICAL AND MODER WISH THOUGHT EARLY JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY RABBINICS AMERICAN JUDAISM IS AEL STUDIES AKKADIAN, ARABIC, JUDEO-ARABIC, ARAMAIC, HITTITE RUSSIAN JEWRY HO CAUST STUDIES YIDDISH LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY JUDAISM EUROPEAN JEWISH HIS RY WOMEN S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF JEWIS CATION SEPHARDIC STUDIES CLASSICAL AND MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT EARLY JUDAIS ND CHRISTIANITY RABBINICS MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE EASTERN RE GION, RITUAL, AND LAW THE HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE, TH EW TESTAMENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE SPECIALIZATIONS COMPARATIVE SEMITICS NCIENT NEAR EAST THE QUR AN CLASSICAL ISLAM JEWS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD COM RATIVE SEMITICS HOLOCAUST ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN RELIGION, RITUAL AND LAW TH ISTORY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE, THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE QUR A LASSICAL ISLAM JEWS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD AMERICAN JUDAISM ISRAEL STUDIES SEP ARDIC EUROPEAN JEWISH HISTORY AKKADIAN, ARABIC, JUDEO-ARABIC, ARAMAIC, HITTIT USSIAN JEWRY HOLOCAUST STUDIES YIDDISH LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY JUDAISM OMEN S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES EARLY JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY ISRAE UDIES SEPHARDIC STUDIES CLASSICAL AND MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT THE HISTOR ND INTERPRETATION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE, THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND THE QUR AN CLAS CAL ISLAM CLASSICAL, MEDIEVAL, AND MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE THE HISTORY AN

7 RENOWNED FACULTY Interact cloely with world-cla faculty whoe commitment to innovative cholarhip, teaching and mentorhip ha had far-reaching impact. Their work ha garnered numerou pretigiou award, including the MacArthur Fellowhip, National Jewih Book Award, Martin E. Marty Public Undertanding of Religion Award, Marhall Sklare Award, Salo W. Baron Book Prize and Ben Halpern Award for Bet Diertation in Irael Studie, among other. The mall tudent-faculty ratio foter cloe adviing and trong mentorhip relationhip. Dedicated faculty train tudent in their repective field and provide opportunitie for reearch, teaching experience and profeional ervice.

8 RESEARCH AT THE VANGUARD RECENT DISSERTATIONS POETIC FEATURES OF THE PRIESTLY NARRATIVE (2013) JASON GAINES (COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS) COMMENTARY AND AUTHORITY IN MESOPOTAMIA AND QUMRAN (2015) BRONSON BROWN-DEVOST (BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY) LET ALL LIFE BE IN COMMON: JEWISH UNIVERSALISM FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE THROUGH THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD (2015) MALKA SIMKOVICH (CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION IN CHICAGO) FINDING A PLACE FOR THE PAST: SEPHARDIC RECONFIGURATIONS OF SPAIN AND PALESTINE ( ) (2015) ALLYSON GONZALEZ (FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY) POWER, PULPITS AND PEWS: RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN JUDAISM, (2015) ZEV ELEFF (TOURO COLLEGE AND HEBREW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE) JEWS & THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: THE TRIANGULAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEWISH POWS, JAPAN AND JACOB H. SCHIFF (2014) MINA MURAOKA (NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY OF JAPAN) MAPPING THE NATION: SIMUN SHVILIM AND THE CREATION OF ISRAEL S HIKING TRAIL NETWORK (2013) SHAY RABINEAU (BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY)

9 FROM OUR GRADUATES I am the bigget cheerleader for the Brandei NEJS department that I know. It i becaue of my work there that I have become the cholar I wanted to be. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Brandei. JEFFREY STACKERT, PHD 06, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HEBREW BIBLE, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DIVINITY SCHOOL The NEJS mater program i excellent at focuing on a cholar trength and encouraging an internal confidence that allow for one bet performance. CHELSIE MAY, MA 14, PHD STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NEJS ha a rigorou yet warm atmophere that i conitently and thoughtfully geared to enuring tudent ucce in producing original cholarhip and in multifariou career puruit. With much thank to excellent mentorhip and generou upport, I feel thoroughly prepared for teaching, publihing and engaging in thought leaderhip in the public phere. CELENE IBRAHIM, PHD STUDENT IN NEJS, JOINT MA IN NEJS AND WOMEN S AND GENDER STUDIES, 2014, SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE AT HEBREW COLLEGE AND ANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, CO-DIRECTOR OF CIRCLE, A GLOBAL INTERRELIGIOUS SERVICE ORGANIZATION NEJS profeor are impreive cholar in their field who are paionate about teaching and tudent learning. After graduating, I received a Fulbright to tudy and teach in Morocco. The emphai that NEJS put on cultural undertanding helped prepare me for living abroad. HANNAH LEVINGER, MA 13, HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH AND HISTORY TEACHER A a NEJS tudent, one receive unmatched attention from academic giant and feel part of a cholarly community that value incluivity, promote academic rigor and encourage vigorou debate. VLAD JUDAH KHAYKIN, NEJS-HORNSTEIN, 2011, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AT THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE, CENTRAL PACIFIC REGION

10 GETTING IN TOUCH To learn more about the NEJS program at Brandei Univerity, pleae viit our webite, contact u through phone or , or top by our office. We look forward to hearing from you! brandei.edu/department/nej nej@brandei.edu Located in Lown 211 Brandei Univerity Department of Near Eatern and Judaic Studie 415 South Street, MS 054 Waltham, MA ROBERT D. FARBER UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PHOTOS COURTESY OF MIKE LOVETT OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS 2015 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY F239

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