http://www.tyndalehouse.co.uk/Newsletters/Autumn2007.pdf
in a recent tyndale house newsletter (link above), dr. peter j. williams, the new warden, has this to say about biblical studies and doctoral studies:
I would like to see PhD students we support, research fellows, the Tyndale Bulletin, in the future acknowledged as superior to nonconfessional counterparts. If the standard way is to require people to take a Masters degree and then a PhD, could we be used to channel resources for people to take two Masters degrees (one in each Testament) and then a PhD, so that those we support have a broader and more rigorous education?
2 masters (one in NT and the other in OT) before proceeding to a PhD in either? excellent idea. i can think of Dr William J. Dumbrell, renowned author of Faith of Israel, who was in Trinity Theological College Singapore when the reb was doing his MTheol. Dumbrell had a masters in OT from University of London(?) and a ThD in NT from Harvard (he has more degrees than most people - BA, MA, BD (1st class honours), MTh, ThD!) no wonder, he writes excellently in the field of biblical studies (e.g. Faith of Israel) and biblical theology (e.g. Creation and Covenant: A Theology of the Old Testament Covenants; Search for Order: Biblical Eschatology in Focus; The End of the Beginning: Rev 21-22 and the Old Testament).
in a recent tyndale house newsletter (link above), dr. peter j. williams, the new warden, has this to say about biblical studies and doctoral studies:
I would like to see PhD students we support, research fellows, the Tyndale Bulletin, in the future acknowledged as superior to nonconfessional counterparts. If the standard way is to require people to take a Masters degree and then a PhD, could we be used to channel resources for people to take two Masters degrees (one in each Testament) and then a PhD, so that those we support have a broader and more rigorous education?
2 masters (one in NT and the other in OT) before proceeding to a PhD in either? excellent idea. i can think of Dr William J. Dumbrell, renowned author of Faith of Israel, who was in Trinity Theological College Singapore when the reb was doing his MTheol. Dumbrell had a masters in OT from University of London(?) and a ThD in NT from Harvard (he has more degrees than most people - BA, MA, BD (1st class honours), MTh, ThD!) no wonder, he writes excellently in the field of biblical studies (e.g. Faith of Israel) and biblical theology (e.g. Creation and Covenant: A Theology of the Old Testament Covenants; Search for Order: Biblical Eschatology in Focus; The End of the Beginning: Rev 21-22 and the Old Testament).
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