Alumni Spotlight: Emily Page

Emily Page began her Liberty journey ten years ago with a B.A. in English. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. at St. Andrews in Scotland, where she is writing a dissertation on Proverbs and its ancient Near Eastern context.

While in her undergraduate studies, Emily took biblical Hebrew for her language electives. She fell in love with the language and became a graduate student assistant (GSA) for her professor of Hebrew studies, Dr. Donald Fowler. While earning her M.A. in English, Emily started pursuing an M.A. in Biblical Studies at the John W. Rawlings School of Divinity (SOD).

In the SOD, Emily discovered her vocational calling: teaching. Her professors modeled quality teaching by using various tools to make learning fun, engaging, and spiritually rich. They helped her develop her skills, providing opportunities through her GSA position.

Since then, Emily has attended two other institutions but finds the community here “unique.” Despite their divergent paths, her classmates have become lifelong friends who still “help in [her] spiritual walk and journey.” Unparalleled, however, is the student-faculty relationship. “The teachers are there not just as informers but are there to shape the lives of their students and their spiritual growth. And so, in that sense, learning becomes a spiritual journey.”

DIVINITY WELCOMES NEW DOCTORAL PROGRAM in BIBLICAL STUDIES

Liberty University’s John W. Rawlings School of Divinity is excited about our new Ph.D. in Biblical Studies. With major and minor focus areas — Old Testament, New Testament, and Biblical Theology — students dive into the original languages, learn advanced hermeneutical techniques, and develop research skills in the biblical disciplines. Moreover, students in the Ph.D. in Biblical Studies are challenged to seriously engage current scholarship in their respective major and minor areas of focus. The Ph.D. in Biblical Studies has a block-rate tuition for full-time students and is eligible for the Keesee scholarship to qualifying students.