Bachelor of Arts

Admission Requirements

For admissions, see List College.

Degree Requirements

From the Core Curriculum
  • TAL 1011/2011: Introduction to Rabbinic Literature (three credits)
  • TAL 1021: Introduction to Talmud I (three credits)
  • TAL 1022: Introduction to Talmud II (three credits)
For Midrash Majors
Twenty-one credits including:
  • TAL 3323: Mishnah for Majors (three credits);
  • One Talmud text course, numbered 3000 or higher;
  • One parshanut or biblical narrative course;
  • MID 3944: Midrash for Majors (three credits);
  • Six additional credits in Midrash (MID 6101: Introduction to Exegesis I [three credits] is recommended);
  • One additional course in the cognate literature of the period (e.g., New Testament, patristics, Greco-Roman literature, Islamic, or gnostic literature) or in the social history of the period; this course may be taken at JTS, Columbia University, Barnard College, or Union Theological Seminary.