For those of you keeping score at home, this morning I completed another phase in my PhD program. I will never again sit in a classroom as a student. Until, of course, I do. But assuming that I pass all of the present courses, I am not required to enroll in any more seminars for this program.<\/p>\n
I think of my program as having five phases:<\/p>\n
#1: Finish ThM (one class); completed Dec 2007<\/p>\n
#2: Complete 27 hours of coursework; 2 years; completed this morning<\/p>\n
#3: Write analyses of 66 biblical books; goal: Dec 2010<\/p>\n
#4: Take 6 written and 1 oral comprehensive exam; goal: Feb 2011<\/p>\n
#5: Write dissertation; goal: May 2012<\/p>\n
I leave for Israel after Christmas and until then, I hope to work on digging out of the hole that has developed in the last months and years. When I return from Israel, I plan to hit the ground running in writing my analyses. I’ve completed (or nearly completed) some already: Genesis, Samuel, Chronicles, Isaiah, and Joel in the OT. In the NT, I’ve finished Matthew and Galatians. I’ve mapped out all of 2010 with approximately one book a week. Psalms will get two weeks, and some shorter prophets and epistles will be doubled up. I will begin Exodus on January 15. My plan is to work through the OT in revelational sequence (chronologically, not canonically). <\/p>\n
In my thinking, the core of my program are the analyses (aka “arguments”) and the exams. These are what attracted me to the program. I am excited that these then are the next two on the list. The dissertation I expect to be the most challenging and least enjoyable portion. It also is the one that may be most difficult to complete according to my timeframe.<\/p>\n
Another way to look at this is that I’ve been in the program for 2.5 years and I hope to finish in 2.5 more years. It took less time to earn a bachelors and a masters, get married, and start teaching. I guess things slow down as you get older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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