Faculty of Jewish Studies

THE FACULTY OF JEWISH STUDIES

Overview

The Faculty of Jewish Studies includes the following departments:

(1)     Bible Studies

(2)     Talmud (which includes the Oral Law track)

(3)     Jewish History

(4)     Hebrew and Semitic Languages

(5)     Literature of the Jewish People

(6)     Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology

(7)     Multidisciplinary Jewish Studies

(8)     Jewish Thought

(9)     Middle Eastern Studies

(10) Sephardic and Oriental Jewry

(11) Jewish Art

The Faculty awards Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees in all the above.

Bar Ilan Unviersity credit system

Bar-Ilan credits are expressed in terms of "annual class hours." The number of "annual hours" awarded for a particular course is normally equal to the number of hours per week devoted to that course during a full year of study (i.e., each "annual hour" is equivalent to 2 credits as usually defined by the U.S. universities working on a semester system). This does not apply to laboratory, seminar, or recitation hours or for certain science courses for which a special credit hour value has been determined.

For more information about studying at the Faculty of Jewish Studies, refer to the Faculty's website.