Program
Department of Near Eastern Studies
School for Advanced International Studies (separate entry)

Degrees Offered
BA
MA
PhD

Middle East Languages
Hebrew (Elementary, Biblical, Advanced Modern, Historical Grammar)
Akkadian
Sumerian
Cuneiform (Elementary, Advanced)
Hieroglyphs (Elementary, Advanced)
Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian
Coptic
Biblical Aramaic
Hittite

Courses
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Introduction to Archaeology
Introduction to Near Eastern Archaeology
Egyptian Culture and Society
Literature of Ancient Israel
History of Ancient Mesopotamia
History of Ancient Syria-Palestine, including Israel
Topics in the History of Egypt
Art of the Ancient Near East
Law in the Ancient World
International Relations in the Ancient Near East
Writing: Its Origins, Functions, and Manifestations
Creation: Man, the Gods, and the Cosmos in Ancient Myths
History and Historiography in the Ancient Near East
The Origins of Literature in Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Medicine
Women in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Painting
Egyptian Religion and Mythology
Ancient Egypt within Africa
The History of the Religion of Israel
Genesis
Dead Sea Scrolls in English
Issues in the Archaeology of the Near East
The Emergence of Civilization: A Cross-Cultural Examination
History of Jewish Civilization
Jewish Literature and Civilization

Faculty
Betsy M. Bryan (Egyptian art and archaeology, Egyptology)
Jerrold S. Cooper (Assyriology)
Ann Gunter (Near Eastern art history)
Richard Jasnow (Egyptology)
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. (Biblical studies, Northwest Semitic philology, Dead Sea scrolls)
Glenn M. Schwartz (Near Eastern archaeology)
Raymond Westbrook (Ancient and Biblical law, Assyriology)

Chair
Betsy M. Bryan

Scholarships/Graduate Support
Graduate fellowships and teaching assistantships
minority fellowships