New Testament and Early Christianity

The Ph.D. program in New Testament and Early Christian Studies is designed to prepare students for teaching and advanced scholarship in the New Testament and related literature in their historical, literary, and cultural contexts as well as in the history of their reception.

The program presents two basic orientations, each constituted by the academic-scholarly interests of the faculty members in the program.

Orientation 1

Professor Amy-Jill Levine
University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies
Mary Jane Werthan Professor in Jewish Studies

Orientation 2

Professor Fernando F. Segovia
Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity