The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures announces that Biblical Hebrew Language now fulfills the Foreign Language Requirement at UCLA. Sign up for Hebrew 110A, 110B, and 110C now!…
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Jason Price Wins Regional Scholar Award
Published: August 20, 2018Jason Price, PhD student in NELC studying under Professor William Schniedewind, has been awarded the Regional Scholar Award by the national SBL’s regional scholars’ awards committee. Jason’s paper, “The Smashed…
Read MoreScott Abramson Wins Distinguished Teaching Award
Published: April 23, 2018Scott Abramson, PhD Candidate in Jewish Studies, received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Under the direction of two co-advisors, Professor Lev Hakak and Professor Steven Spiegel, Scott is writing his dissertation on…
Read MoreNELC Students Speak at Society of Biblical Literature Pacific Coast Regional Meeting
Published: March 16, 2018On Sunday, March 11 2018, a handful of our very own NELC students made their way to Hope International University in Fullerton, CA for the Society of Biblical Literature Pacific…
Read MoreJeremy Smoak Publishes in Near Eastern Archaeology
Published: November 21, 2017“Reading and Writing in the Dark at Khirbet el-Qom: The Literacies of Ancient Subterranean Judah,” by Alice Mandell and Jeremy Smoak is now available in the latest edition of Near Eastern…
Read MoreUCLA Recruitment: Assistant Professor in Early Judaism
Published: August 1, 2017The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in early Judaism at the rank of Assistant…
Read MoreNew Testament Job at UCLA
Published: September 14, 2016The department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA has just opened a new search for an Assistant Professor of New Testament/Early Christianity. Description: The Department of Near Eastern Languages…
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