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Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2003, by comparison with those examinations in 2002, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.
The Faculty Board of Divinity give notice that the form of the examinations for papers in Group C and Paper D2(c) of the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part IIB, which will be examined for the first time in 2003, will be as follows:
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to offer either unseen translation or composition, but may not offer both. They may not offer in Paper C1 any prescribed text that they have already offered in Paper A1 or Paper B1. Candidates will be required to translate four passages out of six from the prescribed portions of Isaiah and the Psalms, commenting on specified words; to attempt one essay question out of a choice of four; and either to translate two unseen passages from Hebrew into English or to translate a passage (not from the prescribed texts) from English into pointed Biblical Hebrew. Copies of the Hebrew Bible will be provided.
The examination for this paper will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to comment on three passages, one from each of the set texts, and to attempt one essay question out of a choice of three. Copies of the New Testament in Greek will be provided.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to translate three passages from the prescribed texts from Sanskrit into English and to answer questions on their language and content, to translate sentences from English to Sanskrit, and to translate one unseen passage from Sanskrit to English.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to translate one out of two passages from the Qur'an, and three out of four passages from the remaining texts, commenting on specified words and concepts, to point two passages from any of the prescribed passages, to translate one unseen passage, and to translate one text from English into Arabic.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper which will be divided into three sections. Section A will contain five essay questions on the Pentateuch and Joshua-2 Kings and a gobbet question on the set text, requiring comment on four passages from a choice of eight. Section B will contain five essay questions on prophecy; Section C will contain five questions on poetic and wisdom literature. Candidates will be required to attempt the gobbet questions in Section A and three essay questions taken from at least two sections of the paper. NRSV and Hebrew Bibles will be available for use in the examination but candidates are not expected to show greater precision in Biblical references as a result of the availability of Bibles.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to attempt three questions from a choice of eight. Copies of the New Testament in Greek and the NRSV Bible will be provided.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper, divided into three sections. Sections A and B will correspond to the prescribed topics; Section C will contain questions of a comparative nature, requiring candidates to draw together the component elements of the course. Candidates will be required to attempt four questions, at least one from each section.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to attempt three questions out of a choice of at least twelve. Questions will be set both on particular issues and on individual theologians.
The form of examination for this paper will be a three-hour written paper. The paper will be divided into four sections. Section A will deal with Late Patristic authors; Section B will deal with High Medieval Western authors; Section C will deal with fourteenth-century authors; and Section D will deal with comparative or synthetic issues. Each section will contain at least four questions, except Section D, which will contain two questions. Candidates will be required to answer a total of four questions, including at least one from each of Sections A, B, and D.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper containing at least twelve questions, of which candidates will be required to attempt four.
The examination for this paper will consist of a three-hour written paper which will be divided into two sections, A and B, corresponding to the set topics. Each section will contain at least eight questions. Candidates will be required to attempt four questions, including at least one from each section.
The examination for this paper will consist of a three-hour written paper divided into two sections, corresponding to the specified topics. Each section will contain at least eight questions. Candidates will be required to attempt four questions, at least one from each section.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper, divided into two sections corresponding to the prescribed subjects. The paper will contain at least twelve questions. Candidates will be required to attempt four questions, including at least one from each section.
This paper will be divided into three sections. Section A will contain questions on the topic in the context of the Jewish tradition. Section B will contain questions on the topic in the context of the Christian tradition. Section C will contain questions requiring comparative treatment of the topic. Each section will contain not less than four and not more than six questions; candidates will be required to answer four questions, including at least one from each section.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 15 January 2003
Copyright © 2003 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.