Have you ever wanted to do an M.A. in Biblical Studies? Now you can. I’ve composed a great curriculum for you from open courses through iTunes U and university web pages (the selection is based on my own biases and whims as well as the available offerings). While there are a few more classes than you might encounter in a traditional M.A. program, you don’t have a thesis or big research papers to submit so it balances out. If you make it through the entire program drop me a line and I’ll email you a diploma.
Old Testament Introduction from Christine Hayes at Yale.
Pentateuch from John Goldingay at Fuller Seminary.
The Prophets from John Goldingay at Fuller Seminary.
Jerusalem: The Holy City: A History of Jerusalem from Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel from Robert Cargill at UCLA.
New Testament Introduction from Dale Martin at Yale.
Historical Jesus from Thomas Sheehan at Stanford.
Biblical Hermeneutics from John Goldingay at Fuller Seminary.
Introduction to Ancient Greek History from Donald Kagen at Yale.
Ancient Mediterranean World from Isabelle Pafford at UC Berkeley.
Theories and Methods in the Study of History from Anne McCants at MIT.
Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument from Daniel Coffeen at UC Berkeley.
Introduction to the Theory of Literature from Paul Fry at Yale.
Writing and Reading the Essay from Rebecca Blevins Faery at MIT.
Introduction to Linguistics from Suzanne Flynn at MIT.
Geography of World Cultures from Martin Lewis at Stanford.
How about Continuing Education credit? I could benefit greatly from each of these.
Wow. It’s amazing that this kind of knowledge is just floating around out there for free… thanks for the suggestions…
The Ancient Greek History class with Kagen is incredible.
Pingback: Dr. Platypus » Blog Archive » Free MA in Biblical Studies
I tried to get the lectures for intro. to linguistics but was unable to find them. Am I missing something?
That’s a very helpful list. Thank you.
Might I please enquire whether you have a view on which order they should be followed?
Here in the Church of England, the Ministry Division places a great deal of emphasis on the practice of reflective theology, at which it expects Ordinands to be experts. At first sight, none of these courses appear to teach this and I wondered whether you had deliberately excluded teaching on the subject or simply that nome was found on your Internet search (or perhaps you consider expertise in reflective theology to be a pre-requisite)?
Daniel, I don’t think they have the audio for the lectures on iTunes but since MIT had a bunch of other stuff relating to the course I included it.
Graham, I didn’t find any reflective or practical theology courses that I wanted to include. I bet there are some out there, they just didn’t turn up in my searches.
Pingback: Bibelkurser på nätet « Exegetisk Teologi
Hey Charles, your little “Free M.A. in Biblical Studies” is so popular that even the Swedish theology blogs are in on it now!
Not too shabby, eh?
This is wonderful! I’ve recommended it to some faculty at Liberty. Now I have a good leisure activity.
Pingback: Free M.A. in Biblical Studies | The Church of Jesus Christ
Pingback: Free M.A. in biblical studies « New Epistles
This is an absolute goldmine of information, thanks!
Hi! I try to download the classes, but i can’t find the MIT-classes, they seem to have been removed from their website. Is there another way of downloading these?
Any German courses?
Those who use a Linux/Unix computer wishing to download the courses on iTunes can install and run iTunes version 7.2 using WINE (oldapps.com). I successfully downloaded a course in Ubuntu.
Pingback: Awilum.com » Update on the Free M.A. in Biblical Studies