Jewish Bible Quarterly

http://jbq.jewishbible.org/

JBQ is now open access, mostly. It appears that current issues are not open access, but past issues are.

From the home page:

The Jewish Bible Quarterly provides timely, authoritative studies on biblical themes. As the only Jewish-sponsored English-language journal devoted exclusively to the Bible, it is an essential source of information for anyone working in Bible studies. The Journal publishes original articles, translations from scholarly Hebrew journals, book reviews, a triennial calendar of Bible reading and correspondence. All viewpoints are considered.

Vetus Latina -- Resources for the Study of the Old Latin Bible

http://www.vetuslatina.org/

For all you Biblical Latin lovers, this site has lots of interesting things including editions and manuscripts.

Topoi: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World / Berliner Studien der Alten Welt

http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/42567

From the AWOL website:

The series: Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World brings together contributions from all fields of classical studies, from pre- and early history and classical archeology to ancient philosophy, theory of science and theology. Monographs and volumes which present the research results of the Excellence Cluster Topoi form a major focus of the series. Additional topics are currently being planned.

Selected titles from the series Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World will be freely accessible in digital form on the Internet at the date of print publication. The series regards itself as a pilot project on how to combine open access with the support of professional publishers in the publication of current research.

Volumes already published

• 1 – Babylon (2011)
  eds. Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva / Ess, Margarete van / Marzahn, Joachim
• 2 – Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance (2011)
  by Alessandra Gilibert (reviews on this publication here and here.)
• 3 – Militärsiedlungen und Territorialherrschaft in der Antike (2010)ed. Daubner, Frank (A review on this publication here.)
• 4 – Rom und Mailand in der Spätantike (2011)ed. Fuhrer, Therese (reviews on this publication here, here, and here.)
• 5 - Population Dynamics in Pre- and Early History (2012)
  eds. Burger, Joachim / Kaiser, Elke
• 6 – Kommunikationsräume im kaiserzeitlichen Rom (2012)
  ed. Mundt, Felix
• 7 – 2000 Jahre Varusschlacht. Geschichte – Archäologie – Legenden (2012)
  eds. Baltrusch, Ernst / Hegewisch, Morten / Meyer, Michael / Puschner, Uwe / Wendt, Christian
• 10 – Hort und Raum (2012)
  eds. Hansen, Svend / Neumann, Daniel / Vachta, Tilmann
• 11 Bild – Raum – Handlung (2012)
  eds. Dally, Ortwin / Moraw, Susanne / Ziemssen, Hauke

Forthcoming Volumes

• The Archaeology of Political Spaces (to be published in April 2013) 
  ed. Bonatz, Dominik
• Mobilität und Wissenstransfer in diachroner und interdisziplinärer Perspektive
  (to be published in March 2013) eds. Kaiser, Elke / Schier, Wolfram
• Spatial analysis and social spaces (to be published in March 2013) eds. Paliou, Eleftheria / Lieberwirth, Undine / Polla, Silvia
• Tumulus as Sema (to be published in March 2013) eds. Henry, Olivier / Kelp, Ute

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW)

http://isaw.nyu.edu/online-resources

From the site:

The creation of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University has its roots in the passion that Shelby White and Leon Levy had for the art and history of the ancient world, which led them to envision an Institute that would offer an unshuttered view of antiquity across vast stretches of time and place.

ISAW is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, which aims to encourage particularly the study of the economic, religious, political and cultural connections between ancient civilizations. It offers both doctoral and postdoctoral programs, with the aim of training a new generation of scholars who will enter the global academic community and become intellectual leaders. In an effort to embrace a truly inclusive geographical scope while maintaining continuity and coherence, the Institute focuses on the shared and overlapping periods in the development of cultures and civilizations around the Mediterranean basin, and across central Asia to the Pacific Ocean. The approaches of anthropology, archaeology, geography, geology, history, economics, sociology, art history, and the history of science and technology are as integral to the enterprise as the study of texts, philosophy, and the analysis of artifacts. The Institute's Director and permanent faculty determine particular directions of research, but both historical connections and patterns, as well as socially illuminating comparisons, will always be central to its mission.

ISAW is a discrete entity within NYU, with its own endowment and its own board of trustees, like the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Institute of Fine Arts.

ISAW is developing a public presence to match its vision, in part so as to make more visible the work of its scholarly community. Exhibitions, public lectures, publications, digital resources, and other programs reflect the Institute's ideal of study that bridges disciplines and ancient peoples.

Update from Tyndale House

David Instone-Brewer is a gift to the academy in many ways, one of which is his work on open access resources available via Tyndale House. Although he has already published numerous aids, he occasionally updates the resources. Here's the link to various matters including Mac vs. PC, Unicode fonts and keyboards, commercial and free Bible software, etc. Stay tuned for the release of STEP.

http://tyndaletech.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/old-testament-studies.html#12

Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics (BAGL)

http://bagl.org/home

Information on this new open-access journal from the homepage:

Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics

Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics (BAGL) is an international journal that exists to further the application of modern linguistics to the study of Ancient and Biblical Greek, with a particular focus on the analysis of texts, including but not restricted to the Greek New Testament.
The journal is hosted by McMaster Divinity College and works in conjunction with its Centre for Biblical Linguistics, Translation and Exegesis, and the OpenText.org organization (www.opentext.org) in the hosting of conferences and symposia open to scholars and students working in Greek linguistics who are interested in contributing to advancing the discussion and methods of the field of research. BAGL is a refereed on-line and print journal dedicated to distributing the results of significant research in the area of linguistic theory and application to biblical and ancient Greek, and is open to all scholars, not just those connected to the Centre and the OpenText.org project.

Areas of Research of Interest to BAGL

The following list provides an indication of some of the open questions for research that are currently being investigated or are of interest to the journal, as well as those connected with the Centre for Biblical Linguistics, Translation and Exegesis, and the OpenText.org project (www.opentext.org). These include:

• a Systemic-Functional analysis of voice in ancient Greek
• developing a discourse grammar of conjunctions
• the identification and functional classification of the paragraph as a unit in Greek discourse
• the identification and functional analysis of discourse units intermediate to clause complexes and the text
• discontinuous constituents in Greek syntax
• the quantitative and qualitative analysis of register
• the morphology, grammar and discourse function of the vocative case
• significant discourse analyses of books of the New Testament and of the Septuagint
• thematization and word order in ancient Greek
• issues and problems in discourse analysis of ancient Greek
• lexicography in the light of semantic domain theory
• various theories of syntax
• levels of linguistic analysis including word group, clause component, clause structure, clause complex, and paragraph
• the challenges of corpus linguistics related to the study of ancient Greek
• the problems of the case and voice systems
• textual encoding and analysis
• functional hermeneutical models

The Israel Antiquities Authority Scientific Archive, 1919-48

http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/

This site has lots of old maps and black and white photos.


From the website:
The archive of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is located in Jerusalem. It essentially continues the archive from the British Mandate era. Following the conquest of Palestine by British forces, headed by General Allenby in 1918, the documentation and data collecting of ancient and archaeological sites had begun. Once a civil government was established by the British Mandatory Authorities in 1920, the Department of Antiquities was created and the archive had become an integral part of it.

The Department of Antiquities of the State of Israel was founded on July 26, 1948, Its activities were based on British Mandate Antiquities ordinances. In 1978, the Mandate ordinances were superseded by the Law of Antiquities that was passed by the Knesset. In 1990, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) was established and replaced the Department of Antiquities.

The IAA archive consists of several sections:
Mandatory : Scientific Record Files Collection (SRF), and Administrative Files, (ATQ).
Israel: scientific and administrative inspection files, excavation files and storage of files of the different IAA units.
Maps; plans and drawings; conservation files; books and cards of finds and squeezes (for details, see IAA link).

The Friedberg Genizah Project

http://www.genizah.org/

The Friedberg Genizah Project is now complete, having added three final images in the new Version 11.

How to Read and Understand the Göttingen Septuagint

Here are links from the publisher on reading this version of the Septuagint:

https://abramkj.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/how-to-read-and-understand-the-gottingen-septuagint-a-short-primer-part-1/

http://abramkj.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/how-to-read-and-understand-the-gottingen-septuagint-a-short-primer-part-2-apparatus/