Career Options
SANE is directly connected to the Ancient Near Eastern Studies (ANES) program at BYU. The ANES major provides students with rich experience in analytical writing and thought and research. These are key skills valued in preparation for law school, some government agencies (U.S. Department of State, for example), and other similar fields.
ANES majors often pursue graduate school in preparation to teach in higher education; opportunities would also be open in the fields of library science and curator/museum positions, as well as careers in the Church Education System (CES). And ANES majors will be prepared to become military chaplains for the Latter-day Saint faith
Graduate School
The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) has its own web site. This is the normal exam taken by undergraduates as a portion of their graduate school applications. Most universities will require this exam for entrance into their graduate programs.
The Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) also has its own web site where information concerning the test may be found. Further information for both the GRE and the LSAT may be found in the Wilkinson Center.
Those students interested in a career as a military chaplain may wish to visit http://www.lds.org to view the necessary requirements for becoming an LDS chaplain in the U.S. military.
The following list of universities, colleges, and seminaries is meant to help ANES majors and minors find graduate level programs that fill their interests in the field.
These graduate programs are solely Near Eastern studies and religious studies in the U.S. Related fields such as archaeology, art history, classics, comparative literature, and history are not listed here. This list is by no means comprehensive.
There is also a list of other useful web sites to help find further graduate school programs in Near Eastern studies and religious studies.
U.S. Universities and Other Helpful URLs list PDF
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SANE Blog and Facebook
ANES Blog
The ANES Blog was created to foster discussion of ANES topics and publications among ANES students.
ANES Facebook
The ANES Facebook was created to foster further interaction among ANES students. Only BYU students will have access to this group.
SANE History
Past SANE Lectures
Fall 2007
Kristian Heal “Exemplarity, Favoritism and the Scriptural Self: Early Christian Reflections on Genesis 37:3-4”
Graduate School Panel Q & A Session
K. Lawson Younger “Biblical Studies and the Comparative Method”
Stephen Ricks “Veiling in the Ancient Near East”
Aren M. Maeir “The New Biblical Archaeology”
Winter 2007
Stephen Bay “Documentary Papyrus and NT Studies”
John Gee “Book of Abraham”
Dan Peterson “Athens and Jerusalem”
Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers) “Light from Egypt on the Exodus Story”
John Crawford (PhD candidate) “Israelite Ethnicity”
Fayza Haikal (Egypt) “Libraries in Ancient Egypt“
Michel Maqdissi (Syria) “MB and LBA Archaeology of Qatna, Syria”
David Taylor (Oxford) “Jesus’ Jewish Priesthood in the Syriac Tradition”
Maamoun Abdul Karim (Syria) “Mysteries of the Dead (Christian) Cities in Syria”
Fall 2006
Panel on Grad School: Frank Judd, Dan Belnap, and Jared Ludlow
Dana M. Pike “The Divine Election of King Hammurabi”
Peter Flint (Trinity Western) “Dead Sea Scrolls“
Christie Welsh Harvard Div School recruiter
Amr Al-Azm (archaeologist from Syria) “Bible Snacks”
Kerry Muhlestein “Egyptian Water—Creation and Chaos”
Winter 2006
Rich Draper “Apocalyptic, Prophecy, and the Prescience of God”
Terry Szink “Ebla and Electronic Databases”
Stephen Ricks “Prayer with Upraised Hands in the Ancient World”
Kent P. Jackson “Scene’s from Paul’s 1st Missionary Journey”
Paul Y. Hoskisson “The Golden Calves are in the Relief Society Room”
Fall 2005
Jeff Chadwick “Hebron, City of the Patriarchs” (archaeological)
Frank Judd “Pontius Pilate in Early Christian Literature”
Cynthia Finlayson “Women of Palmyra (Syria)”
Daniel Belnap “Where is the Devourer?: A Depiction of the Evil Eye In Its Ancient Near Eastern Context” (Arslan Tash tab)
C. Wilfred Griggs “Creating a New Historical Construct for Ancient Christians: 25 Years of BYU Excavations in Ancient Egypt”
Cecilia Peek “Cleopatra”
SANE Committee
President—Daniel Becerra
Vice President—Josh Bodine
Studia Antiqua Editor—Angela Chapman
Activities—Alan Farnes
Secretary—Stephen Mortensen
Advertising Coordinator—Audrey Crandell
Advertising Subcommittee—Aubrey Brower, Karlie Alldredge
Symposium Comittee—David Smith, Audrey Brower, Angela Chapman, Karlie Alldredge
Web site Coordinator—Jonathan Alldredge
Please e-mail Dr. Pike dana_pike@byu.edu or members of the committee with questions.
SANE Committee Duties and Responsibilities
President—The president of SANE is responsible for supervising all SANE activities including SANE committee meetings, lectures, and other activities. The president is also responsible for managing the financial funds and their spending for SANE. The president may delegate duties to other members of the SANE committee.
Vice President—The vice president of SANE supports the president in all his/her responsibilities and officiates over SANE committee meetings, lectures, and other activities when the president is not present. The vice president may also help with the management of financial funds and the delegation of duties if asked to do so by the president.
Secretary—The SANE secretary is responsible for recording the minutes of all SANE committee meetings. He/she may help the advertisements coordinator by sending out email announcements concerning SANE lectures and activities. Currently, the secretary is also responsible for the SANE blog which may be found at the SANE homepage.
Studia Antiqua Editor-In-Chief—The editor-in-chief of Studia Antiqua is responsible for announcing upcoming issues and deadlines, assigning professors to proof read submitted articles, formatting the journal, and making the journal available to the public.
Events Coordinator—The events coordinator is responsible for reserving rooms for SANE lectures and other activities. He/she will use funds to buy and prepare food and drinks for activities.
Historian/Web Coordinator—The SANE coordinator is responsible for archiving all the SANE history in order to accommodate current ANES majors and minors with resources within the field. He/she will accomplish this by filling all important SANE information on the SANE homepage. This archiving project will be beneficial for all future SANE Committee members and ANES majors and minors.
Advertisements Coordinator—The advertisements coordinator is responsible for the creation and distribution of flyers for all upcoming SANE lectures and activities; he/she may also send out e-mail announcements concerning the same.
* The SANE committee duties and responsibilities may be subject to change according to the desires of the current SANE committee members.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Dana M. Pike
Professor of Ancient Scripture, Religion Education, and ANES coordinator
Offices
316G JSB
205 HRCB
Office Hours
TH, 1:00–3:00 P.M., 205 HRCB
Or by appointment
Phone Number: (801)-422-2238
E-mail: dana_pike@byu.edu
Students of the Ancient Near East
Our mission as BYU Students of the Ancient Near East (SANE) is to assist students, particularly Ancient Near Eastern Studies (ANES) majors and minors, to be successful in their interests in order that they may achieve their personal and career goals within the field. SANE seeks to achieve this through lectures and other activities with professors and scholars in the field, providing support for graduate level exams, listing graduate school programs, interacting with other students in the field, and more.
Academic Journals
Journal of Biblical Literature
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Vetus Testamentum
Journal of Early Christian Studies
Vigiliae Christianae
Harvard Theological Review
Oudtestamentische Studiën
Journal of Semitic Studies
Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
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