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.
The propaedeutic year concludes with a comprehensive exam, to which students who have passed all the exams of each course in the program are admitted.
The comprehensive exam is taken in the presence of a commission of three faculty members, who each have 15 minutes to question the candidate.
Here the student must demonstrate the ability to synthesize and interconnect the topics covered during the course of the lectures.
Students who pass the comprehensive exam with a minimum mark of 7 and an overall average of 8.5 of the individual exams of the propaedeutic year and the comprehensive exam are admitted to the Licentiate.
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