In the future, I hope that my work as a biblical scholar will initiate conversations that will transform society and impact the way we think about the Bible. I look forward to making the most out of this rare opportunity. I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity. As a Ghanaian, I will be studying these in comparison to African narratives of colonization, conflict-induced displacements, and transnational migration. My work will explore the interplay between exile and imperialism, mainly in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern textual and iconographic depictions of ancient Israel’s social, economic, and religious life in the shadow of empire (Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia). in Hebrew Bible/ EMWAR here at Yale University. I finished that class with many ideas and thoughts and research tools, and skills that I believe will stay with me for a long while.Ī call to be a moral compass: YDS graduates 135 at Commencement 2022Ĭome fall 2022, I will begin an interdisciplinary Ph.D. I found it not only intellectually stimulating but life-affirming, although Qohelet is impossible to contain emotionally. Jacqueline Vayntrub’s exegesis class on Ecclesiastes/Qohelet was incredibly transformative. Baden, Collins, Reymond, Vayntrub), they all have touched me in meaningful ways. Whether it is a brief conversation with colleagues and staff at the front desk (where I worked for two years), during worship at Marquand Chapel, or in a rigorous Hebrew Bible seminar with any of my outstanding professors (Profs. My experience here has been truly empowering to say the least. I feel humbled to have finished my degree in such an impressive institution. I am highly thrilled, but it also feels like a dream that I am yet to wake up from. I thought the committee had made a mistake by accepting me. When I received my acceptance letter from YDS just before the pandemic in 2020, I was so delighted but also so shocked that for a while, I did not believe it was real. A sampling of graduates reflect on their YDS experience and look ahead to what’s next in their lives and careers.
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