《圣经》和《古代近东》（BANE）博士课程的课程和考试对学生进行了古代以色列，美索不达米亚和叙利亚-加纳的文本和文化的培训。论文可能集中在这些领域之一，或者可能是一个比较研究。这项广泛的培训为学生提供了使用主要近东文化的原始语言和文字进行研究的工具，并帮助他们获得广泛的能力，这些能力可以在整个职业生涯中为研究和教学提供服务和加油。在这些研究领域中，该计划通过仔细阅读原始语言的文本来强调对宗教，仪式和魔术，史学，神话和文学的研究。每学年至少需要七个学期课程的正常费用，需要三年全日制居住。从其他认可机构获得研
The course-work and exams of the doctoral program in Bible and Ancient Near East (BANE) train students in the texts and cultures of ancient Israel, Mesopotamia, and Syria-Canaan. <br><br>The dissertation may focus on one of these areas or may be a comparative study. This broad training gives students the tools to do research in the original languages and texts of the major Near Eastern cultures and helps them to gain broad competence that may serve and fuel their research and teaching throughout their careers. Within these areas of study, the program emphasizes the study of religion, ritual and magic, historiography, myth and literature through the close reading of texts in their original languages.