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In Francophone Africa, the renewal of <strong>religious sciences<\/strong> (growth of faculties, rise of Christianity, coexistence with Islam and traditional religions) is accompanied by acute challenges: combating extremism, intercultural mediation, academic professionalization. This certificate equips participants with proven methods of text reading (Old and New Testament), assuming a <strong>confessional neutrality<\/strong>, a philological requirement and an African contextualization, in order to illuminate public debate and research with a <strong>critical requirement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>UNIVGA Method<\/strong> offers a 100% online, asynchronous program, 5\u20138 hours\/week, combining critical readings of primary sources (Hebrew, Aramaic, Koine Greek, scholarly translations), <strong>exegesis exercises<\/strong> guided, dissertations, documentary files, and short research papers. The whole is <strong>strictly aligned<\/strong> based on PBC standards \u2014 Dei Verbum \u2014 Strasbourg \u2014 Yale Divinity, and draws inspiration from the methods of Sorbonne, EPHE, ICP, Strasbourg, Yale Divinity, T\u00fcbingen. Case studies, digital tool banks (BHQ\/NA28 apparatus, Talmud\/Sefaria corpus), evaluation rubrics, and expert feedback ensure an immediately deployable skill enhancement <strong>in higher education, research, and religious institutions (seminaries, institutes, churches, NGOs).<\/strong> As a result, certified individuals will be able to advance to responsibilities as<\/p>\n<p>faculty teacher<strong>in theology,<\/strong> in religious studies, <strong>in religious studies,<\/strong> specialized religion journalist <strong>, PhD candidate<\/strong>,<strong>institutional chaplain<\/strong>, <strong>interreligious dialogue trainer<\/strong>, <strong>cults expert<\/strong>,<strong>in administrations,<\/strong> biblical translator. <strong>The UNIVGA Professional Certificate is recognized by universities, seminaries, Catholic and Protestant institutes, confessional NGOs, media, and public administrations responsible for religious matters, particularly in the CEMAC region and Francophone Africa, where the demand for critical and contextualized expertise in<\/strong> or<strong>archiviste religieux<\/strong>exegesis and hermeneutics <strong>continues to grow.<\/strong> Rigorous certifying program in religious studies, aligned with PBC \u2014 Dei Verbum \u2014 Strasbourg \u2014 Yale Divinity. Intermediate professional training in advanced exegetical and hermeneutical methods, to analyze, interpret, and convey the Scriptures in academic and institutional contexts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyze textual, literary, and editorial critiques of biblical texts<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","course-category":[1945],"course-tag":[],"class_list":["post-103777","courses","type-courses","status-publish","hentry","course-category-departement-theologie-sciences-religions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Certificat Professionnel en \u00c9tudes Bibliques et Interpr\u00e9tation Critique - UNIVGA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parcours certifiant rigoureux en sciences des religions, align\u00e9 PBC \u2014 Dei Verbum \u2014 Strasbourg \u2014 Yale Divinity. 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