Lectio difficilior

Lectio difficilior, besides a term in textual criticism, is also an open access journal for feminist criticism:

http://www.lectio.unibe.ch/e/index_e.html

With the motto "lectio difficilior lectio melior est," it must be worth a look!

Bible and Interpretation

A new open-access journal has appeared: The Bible and Interpretation:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/

The developing site's remit is "to bring the latest news and information in the field of biblical studies to a wide readership and to contact scholars for comment and analysis." Despite the popular readership, the site has articles from some very distinguished scholars.

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new open access journal in Jewish studies

http://www.mucjs.org/MELILAH/index.htm
For those interested in "Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras," a new open-access journal, Melilah, is out. It seems oriented towards junior scholars, but open to established ones as well.

Sheffield Press joins ICI

More good news, in that Sheffield Press has joined SBL-ICI to provide open access books. The first two are:

The Coming King and the Rejected Shepherd: Matthew’s Reading of Zechariah’s Messianic Hope, Clay Alan Ham, New Testament Monographs 4, 2005.

“I Have Written to the King, My Lord”: Secular Analogies for the Psalms, Roger Tomes, Hebrew Bible Monographs 1, 2005.

The url is the same as ICI's:
http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/onlinebooks.aspx

updated ICI list of open access books

ICI has updated its list of open access publications. Again, many of these are highly specialized monographs and will thus appeal to a very narrow readership, but there are a number of more general works and even some fine reference works.

The url is:
http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/onlinebooks.aspx

You will probably need to scroll down to find the general categories, which are hyperlinks to the individual titles.

IVBS website launched

After some two years, the Society of Biblical Literature has completed work on the new International Voices in Biblical Studies (IVBS). IVBS is basically a venue for open access publishing of scholarly monographs in the field of biblical studies. It is peer-reviewed.

You can send manuscripts to IVBS for publication as well as access any forthcoming books published through it online at no charge.

The url is:
http://ivbs.sbl-site.org/home.aspx

Comprehensive, alphabetical list of all open access journals for ancient studies

I try to post any newly accessible open access journals, etc., that I feel are relevant to those on this blog from Chuck Jones's AGADE listserve. Periodically, Jones posts an alphabetical list of all the open access journals for ancient studies. I thought that perhaps some of you might wish to look at the whole thing in case you find some of interest that I have not alerted you to. Here's the url

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2009/10/alphabetical-list-of-open-access.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Awol-TheAncientWorldOnline+%28AWOL+-+The+Ancient+World+Online%29

Here's a new online journal for the NT crowd:

http://www.blogger.com/home