Hittite Epigraphic Findings in the Ancient Near East

http://www.hittiteepigraphs.com/index.html

From the home page:

The present web-site has been developed with the purpose of creating a general geographic map of the epigraphic findings belonging to the Hittite Kingdom (1600 – 1150 BC). The findings listed here concern texts, seals, and inscribed objects written either in Akkadic or Hittite.

Data come from more than 70 archaeological sites spread over a territory extending from the Western Anatolian coast to the Tigris valley and from the Northern Anatolian coast to the Syro-Lebanese border.

The web-site and its contents have been created and are currently curated by Dr. Dario Fossati. The page was realized as part of the project "Creazione di una mappa interattiva dei ritrovamenti epigrafici nei siti anatolici e siriani sotto controllo ittita" and has been supervised by Professor Franca Pecchioli Daddi of the University of Florence.

It is part of the research project PRIN 2009 "Modelli di costruzione fisica ed ideologica del territorio e identità culturali: città sacre, santuari, complessi funerari in Siria, Anatolia e Transcaucasia nelle Et� del Bronzo e del Ferro", supervised by Professor Stefania Mazzoni.

Digital Nestle-Aland 28

http://www.nestle-aland.com/en/read-na28-online/

The 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament has now been published. While the text is readable online, the critical apparatus is disappointingly not (freely that is).

JANES -- Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society

http://www.jtsa.edu/Scholars_and_Research/JANES.xml

JANES is open access via The Jewish Theological Seminary. It appears as though its last publication was in 2009.

The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library

http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/about-the-project/the-digital-library

This site offers high-res digital scans of "thousands of scroll fragments." The fragments represent Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, and Latin in biblical and extrabiblical texts. The scans can be enlarged to a high magnitude.

Good for working on reading unpointed Paleo- and Classical Hebrew.

3 new books from ASOR

MacDonald, Burton. East of the Jordan: Territories and Sites of the Hebrew Scriptures. ISBN 0-89757-031-6 p. viii + 287 Boston, MA: ASOR, 2000

Nakhai, Beth Alpert. Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel. ISBN O-89757-057-X p. x + 262 Boston, MA: ASOR, 2001.

Walls, Neal. Desire, Discord and Death: Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Myth. ISBN O-89757-055-3-X; 056-1 p. x + 262 Boston, MA: ASOR, 2001.

Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament (JESOT)

http://jesot.org/

This is a relatively new open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Note that it is not (at least yet) indexed by ATLA. Although the "scope" section (below) claims to fill a void, IBR has been doing the same sorts of things for some time, albeit with a focus on the current state of scholarship.

From the site:

Scope

Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament (JESOT) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the academic and evangelical study of the Old Testament. The journal seeks to fill a need in academia by providing a venue for high-level scholarship on the Old Testament from an evangelical standpoint. The journal is not affiliated with any particular academic institution, and with an international editorial board, online format, and multi-language submissions, JESOT cultivates and promotes Old Testament scholarship in the evangelical global community. The journal differs from many evangelical journals in that it seeks to publish current academic research in the areas of ancient Near Eastern backgrounds, Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinics, Linguistics, Septuagint, Research Methodology, Literary Analysis, Exegesis, Text Criticism, and Theology as they pertain only to the Old Testament. The journal will be freely available to the scholarly community and will be published bi-annually online. Hard copies will be produced by request. JESOT also includes up-to-date book reviews on various academic studies of the Old Testament.

Indexing

JESOT is indexed in Old Testament Abstracts, Christian Periodical Index, The Ancient World Online, and Biblicalstudies.org.uk.

Doctrinal Position

The editorial staff and board of Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament endorses the following doctrinal statement which has been adapted from the internationally oriented Lausanne Covenant:
1. The belief in the one eternal God who exists in three persons as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and who creates and governs all things in accordance with his will.
2. The belief that the Old and New Testament Scriptures are divinely inspired, without error in all that they affirm, the only infallible rule of faith and practice, and able to accomplish God’s purpose of salvation.
3. The deity of Jesus Christ, his substitutionary death on the cross as the necessary means for the redemption of the world, and his bodily resurrection and return.
4. The work of the Holy Spirit in granting new life to the believer and bearing witness to the Truth through the study and proclamation of the Word of God.
* JESOT welcomes submissions from contributors that do not adhere to the above statements. However, the editorial staff and board will reserve the right to determine an article’s appropriateness for publication.