Why Grad School?
God desires for you to live and act with great intention, for His name’s sake. And yet, God hasn’t given a biblical commandment to go to seminary. So why go to seminary / grad school? Because we are never done learning and those that we minister to, deserve our best! I sadly hear many undergrad students say that they know all they need to know after doing a BA in ministry, Bible, or Theology. This cannot be further from the truth. My undergrad was in Ministry, but in Grad School i fell in love with biblical backgrounds of the text. This is the lens through which i teach Scripture. Thus, this below list. I have compiled various graduate programs which specialize in biblical backgrounds of the various areas of Scripture. I know not all of these are "evangelical" or even a Christian school. But, if you're a strong believer and desire to grasp the world of the biblical text, you can't beat these programs.
Egyptology
University of Memphis: https://www.memphis.edu/history/egyptology/
Middle-Eastern Studies
Harvard: https://gsas.harvard.edu/programs-of-study/all/middle-eastern-studies
Trinity International: (Teds) https://www.tiu.edu/graduate/programs/master-biblical-new-eastern-archaeology-languages/
Catholic University of America: https://semitics.catholic.edu/academics/graduate-programs/master-of-arts/index.html
Johns Hopkins: https://neareast.jhu.edu/graduate/assyriology/
UT Austin: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/graduate-studies/ph-d-programs/middle-eastern-history.html
Archaeology (Formal)
Lipscomb: https://www.lipscomb.edu/academics/programs/archaeology-graduate
Shepherds Theological Seminary: https://www.ccu.edu/undergrad/biblical-archaeology/
Veritas International University: https://viu.ves.edu/master-of-arts-in-archaeology-biblical-history/
Wheaton: https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/programs/biblical-archaeology/
OT (Backgrounds Heavy)
Wheaton OT / Archaeology: https://www.wheaton.edu/graduate-school/degrees/ma-in-old-testament-archaeology/
Jerusalem University College: https://www.juc.edu/academics/master-arts/
Trinity Divinity: https://www.tiu.edu/divinity/programs/master-old-testament-semitic-languages/
UT Austin: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/graduate-studies/ph-d-programs/ancient-near-east-hebrew-bible/
NOBTS: (Not background heavy) https://catalog.nobts.edu/graduate/masters/degrees/arts/biblicalstudies
Judaism
Yeshiva University : https://philosproject.org/home/yeshiva/
Vanderbilt : https://as.vanderbilt.edu/jewishstudies/graduate/degree-overview/
Hebrew Union : http://huc.edu/academics/become-scholar/degree-programs#sr2
DTS: https://www.dts.edu/academics/degrees-programs/master-of-arts-in-jewish-studies/
Hebrew Union: http://huc.edu/admissions/applications-and-program-requirements/apply-become-scholar/ma-jewishjudaic-studies
McGill: https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/graduate-fields-study/early-judaism
TALBOT: Messianic Jewish Studies https://www.biola.edu/degrees/g/messianic-jewish-studies-mdiv
Kings University Messianic Jewish Studies : https://www.tku.edu/academics/graduate/master-of-divinity-in-messianic-jewish-studies/
