Biblical Languages and Literature

A 2.1 undergraduate Honours degree in Biblical Studies or a closely related discipline. If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements.

You must have taken at least two semesters (or equivalent) of either Hebrew or Greek at undergraduate level.

The MLitt in Biblical Languages and Literature offers students with existing competence in Biblical languages the opportunity to increase their linguistic and exegetical skills through sustained close and critical engagement with the Biblical texts and themes.

The MLitt in Biblical Languages and Literature is a one-year taught programme run by the School of Divinity. You will gain proficiency in the grammar and syntax of Hebrew and Greek. You will become familiar with using critical editions of texts and the methods, sources and norms of Biblical scholarship.  

Highlights

• Focus on reading biblical manuscripts and using the apparatuses of the critical editions of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and the New Testament with preparation for research degrees. 
• Increase proficiency in the grammar and syntax of both Hebrew and Greek.
• Gain a critically and historically informed understanding of biblical traditions and their textual development.
• Contextualise the various methods and sources employed in biblical scholarship to use textual investigations in broader biblical, historical and theological research.