耶鲁大学宗教研究系培训了在学院内外工作的几代知识领袖。宗教研究系的研究生课程分为11个研究领域。每个研究领域都有其入学要求和课程。申请人必须在提交在线申请时指定要申请的字段。认为自己感兴趣的研究领域介于两个现有研究领域之间的学生，应在申请前通过电子邮件向相关教职员工咨询有关如何提交申请的信息。通过单击适当的研究领域可以获得有关研究领域及其入学要求和课程的所有特定信息。在新约中攻读博士学位的学生可以将其作为早期地中海和西亚宗教领域的一个集中领域（EMWAR）。
Students pursuing a doctorate in New Testament may do so as an area of concentration within the field of Early Mediterranean and West Asian Religions (EMWAR). Early Mediterranean and West Asian Religions (EMWAR) is a multidisciplinary program that enables students to develop research expertise and teaching competence in the traditional fields of Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism, New Testament, Ancient Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism OR in cross-field areas of specialization such as Scriptures and their Interpretation in Antiquity, West Asian Religions of the Sasanian and early Islamic era, Christianity and Judaism in the Hellenistic East, and more. Through a combination of primary and secondary areas of concentration, this flexible program enables historical, literary, and comparative study of the religious texts, traditions, material culture, and cultural formations of the Mediterranean and West Asian world and their interactions from the Hellenistic period (3rd c BCE) to the early Islamic period (10th c CE). A Language Concentration Track (LCT) allows students to develop an even more specialized degree of philological and linguistic expertise.