Faculty - Princeton Theological Seminary

Curriculum
The Master of Divinity program requires the successful completion of seventyeight
credits drawn from the four academic departments of the Seminary and a
listing of breadth and general requirements.
The specific course/credit requirements are allocated as follows:
Biblical Studies
The student is required to take twelve credits, distributing the work as follows:
1. Courses OT2101 Orientation to Old Testament Studies, and NT2101
Introduction to the New Testament, which must be completed during the
first year of work.
2. One course (three credits) in New Testament and one course (three
credits) in Old Testament, one of which must be designated as “close
reading of the text.”
Entering students who have studied Greek and/or Hebrew in a college or university
setting and who wish to have an introductory language prerequisite waived
must take the appropriate language placement examination(s). Students who have
studied the equivalent of two full semesters or more of a biblical language at an
ATS-accredited seminary or divinity school and have earned a grade of B or better
need not take a placement examination.
As a means of evaluating the student’s ability to carry on exegetical work in New
Testament, the Greek placement examination will seek to determine:
1. The candidate’s ability to decline nouns, adjectives, and participles and to
conjugate and parse (analyze) verbs.
2. Acquaintance with fundamental syntactical construction (such as those
dealt with in J.W. Voelz’s Fundamental Greek Grammar, Concordia
Publishing Company).
3. Proficiency in translating moderately difficult passages from the Greek
New Testament. An unmarked copy of the BDAG lexicon (Bauer, Danker,
Arndt, Gingrich, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament) may be
used as a resource while taking this examination.
As a means of evaluating the student’s ability to carry on exegetical work in Old
Testament, the Hebrew placement examination will seek to determine the candidate’s
ability to:
1. Analyze Hebrew forms.
2. Understand the fundamental syntactical construction.
3. Translate prose passages from the Hebrew Bible.
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