Academic Programs

Compare Certificate Programs

Every program is built from primary texts. Compare what each one reads, what it asks of you, and how it ends.

What each program covers, what you read, and how long it takes.

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Program	Credential	Field of Study	Core Texts & Figures	Courses & Length	Accelerated
Early Christianity: Apostolic–Post-Nicene	Graduate program in Early Christianity	Communities, movements, texts, and institutions of the church from the first century through the post-Nicene period	Ignatius · Justin Martyr · Irenaeus · Didache · Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History · canons of Nicaea	11 courses · 33 credits · about 18 months	—
Biblical Research & Interpretation	PhD in Biblical Research	Independent research: source evaluation, evidence, scholarly writing, and preparation for publication	Historiographical and method literature · student-selected primary corpus · peer-reviewed secondary scholarship	16 courses · 54 credits · about 4 years full-time	—
Biblical Exegesis	Master of Biblical Exegesis	Text, genre, historical setting, literary context, and the evaluation of competing interpretations	Nestle-Aland 28 · Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia · critical apparatus · commentary traditions	18-course framework · your concentration sets the required courses · about 24 months, or self-paced	Yes 6 months
Black Hebrew Israelite Theology	Graduate program in Hebrew Israelite Theology	Origins, movements, source traditions, identity claims, and historical development	Primary movement literature · nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodicals and pamphlets · peer-reviewed historical scholarship	11 courses · 33 credits · about 18 months	—

The questions each program pursues, the method it uses, and what the week actually demands.

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Program	Primary Question	Method	Languages	Skills Developed	Reading Load
Early Christianity: Apostolic–Post-Nicene	How did the earliest communities, their institutions, and their doctrines actually develop?	Historical and source-based study	None required	Contextual reading · historical synthesis · source criticism	120–150 pp / week
Biblical Research & Interpretation	What does the evidence actually support, and how would I demonstrate it to a skeptical reader?	Research design and supervised capstone	Greek or Hebrew	Research design · argumentation · scholarly apparatus	200+ pp / week
Biblical Exegesis	What does this passage say in its own language and setting, and why do careful readers disagree?	Close reading and comparative interpretation	Greek & Hebrew (taught)	Original-language reading · textual criticism · exegetical method	90–120 pp / week + language drill
Black Hebrew Israelite Theology	Where did these movements come from, what sources do their claims rest on, and how do historians test them?	Historiography and source evaluation	None required	Archival reading · historiographic analysis · evaluation of claims	120–150 pp / week

What is assessed, what you produce, and where each program leads.

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Program	Final Requirement	Original Research	Publication Requirement	Assessed Writing	Next Recommended Pathway
Early Christianity: Apostolic–Post-Nicene	6,000-word historical essay	Guided	No	4 papers	Advanced Biblical Research
Biblical Research & Interpretation	Dissertation and oral defense before the Academic Board	Required	Yes	7 papers + dissertation	Terminal pathway
Biblical Exegesis	Exegetical thesis/capstone and online oral defense	Guided	No	6 papers + thesis/capstone	Advanced Biblical Research
Black Hebrew Israelite Theology	6,000-word historiographical essay	Guided	No	4 papers	Advanced Biblical Research

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