Master 2 Concentration: Biblical Studies

Credits: 60

Length: 1 year (can be spread over 2 calendar years)

Degree type: MA Domuni University/ French State Degree

Entry requirements: MA1 in Religious Studies or MA1 in Theology (or equivalent)

Master 2 involves a thesis of 350 000 characters - (including spaces). Students will then complete an oral thesis defense in front of an academic jury.

Choose 4 courses from below and one research seminar, in accordance with the Director of Studies.

List of Courses

The Book of Tobit

The name which designates the book has not always been the same through the centuries. The name « Tobiah » in English or « Tobie » in French comes from the Latin Vulgate which gives the same Latin name, Tobias, to the father and the son. It has been used in the past decades but is generally no longer in use.

Credits: 3 |
Professor: Hervé Tremblay

The Book of Esther

The book of Esther tells the story of... Esther, a young Jewish girl who is among the deportees living in Susa, in Persia. After the dismissal of the former queen Vashti because she disobeyed king Ahasuerus, Esther is chosen and becomes queen of Persia.

Credits: 3 |
Professor: Hervé Tremblay

The Book of Judith

The book of Judith is named after its main hero whose achievements it tells and glorifies. Like the books of Tobit and Esther, the book of Judith focuses on a main character and tells in detail the salvation given by God in a critical situation.

Credits: 3 |
Professor: Hervé Tremblay

Gerald O'Collins' Understanding of Symbols, Experience and Divine Revelation

Considering that the divine revelation always takes place in the form of symbols and within human experience, I also study O’Collins’ understanding of symbols and experience, and their relationship with the divine revelation.

How can we access the reality of revelation when both symbols and experience are historically, socially,and religiously conditioned and limited? What is the role of symbols in both the communication of the divine revelation by God and its experience by human beings?

Credits: 3 |
Professor: Tam Nguyen

Synoptic Gospels - Part II. Reading the Synoptic Gospels

Inter omnes divinas auctoritates, quae sanctis Litteris continentur,
Evangelium merito excellit.
Augustine, De consenu evangelistaren (I. 1.1)

Credits: 3 |
Professor: Anthony Giambrone

Synoptic Gospels - Part III. Mysteries of the Life of Christ

Inter omnes divinas auctoritates, quae sanctis Litteris continentur,
Evangelium merito excellit.
Augustine, De consenu evangelistaren (I. 1.1)

Credits: 3 |
Professor: Anthony Giambrone

SEM31 - The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas

This eight-week seminar will investigate some key elements of the Trinitarian theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. We will explore the mystery of the Trinity through several fundamental texts of the scholastic tradition.

From 8th October 2018 to 2nd September 2018. Seminar closed

Credits: 6 |
Professor: Theodore John Baptist Ku

New Testament Events

This course is part of the book,
Mahieu, Bieke. Between Rome and Jerusalem. Herod the Great and His Sons in Their Struggle for Recognition: A Chronological Investigation of the Period 40 BC-39 AD, with a Time Setting of New Testament Events. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 208. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.

Credits: 3 |
Professor: Dr. Bieke Mahieu