Travel Course

The School of Biblical Interpretation offers two unique travel courses as part of the Old Testament department’s Israel studies program, which can be taken at the graduate or postgraduate level:

OT540/900 Historical Geography

Students experience directly the land of Israel in an intensive 3-week immersion in the geography, history and archaeology of the whole Bible, though major emphasis falls on the OT by the nature of the subject matter. The course integrates concentrated pre-trip preparation, intensive academic lectures, extensive field learning in Israel and optionally, in Jordan when conditions permit. A distinctive of the course is that, rather than moving from place to place with no central focus, students live on JUC’s campus just outside Jerusalem’s Old City, where they experience first-hand for this three-week period the cross-cultural experience of life in Jerusalem. This becomes a base from which field studies originate. This course is offered as an expression of Asbury Seminary’s affiliate relationship with Jerusalem University College in Jerusalem.

OT753/953 Field Archeology

Students spend three to four weeks excavating in a biblical land on a legitimately licensed, teachingoriented excavation site as part of a reputable archaeological team. Students live and work in an international, multi-ethnic, multi-religious environment. Students excavate in the field, process and record finds, wash and read pottery, and attend lectures by scholars on the intersection of material culture and the biblical text.

(are there more travel courses?)