Biblical Studies
The purpose of the Biblical Faculty is:
- To cultivate and promote, by means of scholarly research, the obtaining of "a more profound understanding and exposition of the meaning of Sacred Scripture." (Dei Verbum , §12)
- To offer to the students, by the teaching and practice of various disciplines, in particular the biblical languages, an adequate preparation both for scholarly research and for the teaching and spread of Sacred Scripture and of the disciplines connected with it.
- To work toward "a better understanding and explanation of the meaning of Sacred Scripture, so that through preparatory study the judgment of the Church may mature" (Dei Verbum, §12) and that Sacred Scripture may have an ever more active role in the study of theology, in pastoral ministry, in ecumenical dialogue, in the sacred liturgy and in the reading of the faithful.
Statute, art. 60
The doctorate is the academic degree with which it is certified that the one to whom it is awarded has shown adequate scientific research skills with appropriate tests and above all with a written dissertation, prepared under the guidance of a teacher, publicly defended, approved by a college of professors and published at least in its main part. No one can be admitted to the Doctorate if he has not first obtained a Licentiate in the same discipline.
Statutes, art. 61
In the Biblical Faculty:
The PhD cycle begins, after obtaining the Licentiate, with a year of preparation that includes at least two semesters of university study under the direction of a teacher. The study program and the final experiment are defined in the "Application standards".
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