Saturday, December 27, 2014
Books and articles on Egyptology from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
From the website:
The world-wide-web is replete with links to Egyptological resources, and there are many pages of bibliography out there, of which the prime example is the Online Egyptological Bibliography. But as yet, none of the more systematic bibliographies are publishing links to the actual PDF files of books and articles which may be freely acquired online, although they may be collecting the URL references. This project attempts to go some way toward filling that gap.
Click here for the full list.
Notice: Bookmark this page, not the full list, as the file name may change.
The list uses standard Egyptological abbreviations for books and journals.
This project is a "work in progress", and is bound to contain errors and omissions. The document takes the form of one large HTML file with the data arranged by author; links to both the web page from which the file can be accessed and the PDF file for the document itself are given. Searching must be done using the Find function of your web browser. It may be possible to enhance this capability in the future, but much will depend on the reactions of internet users to this work.
The data has been collected and arranged by Andrea Middleton, Brooke Garcia, and Robyn Price, Graduate Assistants in the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, a unit of the Department of Art in the University of Memphis (Tennessee, USA). We have tried to seek out as many books and articles as possible on Egyptological subjects which are freely accessible to anyone without the need for privileged access. Thus we have searched sites such as the Internet Archive, the University of Heidelberg Library, the Oriental Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, the Giza Library, Ancient World Online (AWOL), and many more, as well as attempting to collect links noted in the pages of EEF (Egyptologists' Electronic Forum) News.
Sites which require institutional access or a password are not included—thus journals on JSTOR have not been indexed. Nor have papers available on www.academia.edu or http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/ (BIFAO) been included here. It is likely that some articles on JSTOR are duplicated elsewhere, and it is equally possible that some articles and books are available at more than one location. In the latter case, we have tried to give all the options.
Please report comments, errors, omissions, etc. to nigel.strudwick @ memphis.edu. We hope this work is useful.
Nigel Strudwick
December 2014
The world-wide-web is replete with links to Egyptological resources, and there are many pages of bibliography out there, of which the prime example is the Online Egyptological Bibliography. But as yet, none of the more systematic bibliographies are publishing links to the actual PDF files of books and articles which may be freely acquired online, although they may be collecting the URL references. This project attempts to go some way toward filling that gap.
Click here for the full list.
Notice: Bookmark this page, not the full list, as the file name may change.
The list uses standard Egyptological abbreviations for books and journals.
This project is a "work in progress", and is bound to contain errors and omissions. The document takes the form of one large HTML file with the data arranged by author; links to both the web page from which the file can be accessed and the PDF file for the document itself are given. Searching must be done using the Find function of your web browser. It may be possible to enhance this capability in the future, but much will depend on the reactions of internet users to this work.
The data has been collected and arranged by Andrea Middleton, Brooke Garcia, and Robyn Price, Graduate Assistants in the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, a unit of the Department of Art in the University of Memphis (Tennessee, USA). We have tried to seek out as many books and articles as possible on Egyptological subjects which are freely accessible to anyone without the need for privileged access. Thus we have searched sites such as the Internet Archive, the University of Heidelberg Library, the Oriental Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, the Giza Library, Ancient World Online (AWOL), and many more, as well as attempting to collect links noted in the pages of EEF (Egyptologists' Electronic Forum) News.
Sites which require institutional access or a password are not included—thus journals on JSTOR have not been indexed. Nor have papers available on www.academia.edu or http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/ (BIFAO) been included here. It is likely that some articles on JSTOR are duplicated elsewhere, and it is equally possible that some articles and books are available at more than one location. In the latter case, we have tried to give all the options.
Please report comments, errors, omissions, etc. to nigel.strudwick @ memphis.edu. We hope this work is useful.
Nigel Strudwick
December 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
STEP Bible
For several years scholars at Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK, have been working on powerful Bible software to make features that one finds in expensive programs like Logos and BibleWorks freely availalble to students and scholars in developing countries. The project is called the STEP Bible, "STEP" standing for Scripture Tools for Every Person.
Although work on STEP continues, it is now accessible:
https://www.stepbible.org/
You'll find an orientation video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLm6UMEOjb4&index=1&list=PLaG6d96SWm5_Z0KViIk4XCy51HeeSuovL
Although work on STEP continues, it is now accessible:
https://www.stepbible.org/
You'll find an orientation video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLm6UMEOjb4&index=1&list=PLaG6d96SWm5_Z0KViIk4XCy51HeeSuovL
Monday, December 15, 2014
Various Akkadian and Sumerian texts from Marburg University
Ur III Transliterationen mit HyperlinksQuelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)Ur III Glossar Teil 1 (A–E) mit Hyperlinks
ur3_20110805_public.atfQuelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)Ur III Glossar Teil 2 (G–L) mit Hyperlinks
ur3_20110805_public.atfQuelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)Ur III Glossar Teil 3 (M-Š) mit Hyperlinks
ur3_20110805_public.atfQuelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)Ur III Glossar Teil 4 (T–Z, Numeralia)) mit Hyperlinks
ur3_20110805_public.atfQuelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)Ur III Zeichenkonkordanz
ur3_20110805_public.atfQuelle: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)Der Kodex Hammurabi (KH) Transliteration [PDF]
ur3_20110805_public.atfQuellen: Rykle Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke3 (Analecta Orientalia 54)Der Kodex Hammurabi (KH) Transliteration [text]
Heft I, XIII–XV, 2–50 (2006)
Dokumentation (Fotos und Kopien): Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253Quellen: Rykle Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke3 (Analecta Orientalia 54)Der Kodex Hammurabi (KH) Glossar
Heft I, XIII–XV, 2–50 (2006)
Dokumentation (Fotos und Kopien): Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253Quellen: Rykle Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke3 (Analecta Orientalia 54)Der Kodex Hammurabi (KH) Zeichenkonkordanz
Heft I, XIII–XV, 2–50 (2006)
Dokumentation (Fotos und Kopien): Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253Quellen: Rykle Borger, Babylonisch-Assyrische Lesestücke3 (Analecta Orientalia 54)
Heft I, XIII–XV, 2–50 (2006)
Dokumentation (Fotos und Kopien): Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) http://cdli.ucla.edu/P249253
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Themelios
http://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/
This journal of an evangelical perspective was published in print before ending in that medium. It is now published online by The Gospel Coalition. The above url takes you to the current edition and the following url takes you to the archives:
http://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/archive
This journal of an evangelical perspective was published in print before ending in that medium. It is now published online by The Gospel Coalition. The above url takes you to the current edition and the following url takes you to the archives:
http://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/archive
Internet Archive
https://archive.org/
Download books (and other media) from this site. Many classical volumes in Biblical Studies may be found here.
Download books (and other media) from this site. Many classical volumes in Biblical Studies may be found here.
Open Library
https://openlibrary.org/
This site has many texts (and other media) that are freely accessible, although the majority will be outside the field of Biblical Studies.
This site has many texts (and other media) that are freely accessible, although the majority will be outside the field of Biblical Studies.
Monday, December 1, 2014
The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/
From the website:
Numerous royally commissioned texts were composed between 744 BC and 669 BC, a period during which Assyria became the dominant power in southwestern Asia. Six hundred to six hundred and fifty such inscriptions are known today. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, under the direction of Professor Grant Frame of the University of Pennsylvania, will publish in print and online all of the known royal inscriptions that were composed during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sargon II (721-705 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), and Esarhaddon (680-669 BC), rulers whose deeds were also recorded in the Bible and in some classical sources. The individual texts range from short one-line labels to lengthy, detailed inscriptions with over 500 lines (2500 words) of text.
These Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions (744-669 BC) represent only a small, but important part of the vast Neo-Assyrian text corpus. They are written in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian and provide valuable insight into royal exploits, both on the battlefield and at home, royal ideology, and Assyrian religion. Most of our understanding of the political history of Assyria, and to some extent of Babylonia, comes from these sources. Because this large corpus of texts has not previously been published in one place, the RINAP Project will provide up-to-date editions (with English translations) of Assyrian royal inscriptions from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) to the reign of Esarhaddon (680-669 BC) in five print volumes and online, in a fully lemmatized and indexed format. The aim of the project is to make this vast text corpus easily accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. RINAP Online will allow those interested in Assyrian culture, history, language, religion, and texts to efficiently search Akkadian and Sumerian words appearing in the inscriptions and English words used in the translations. Project data will be fully integrated into the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) and the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc).
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the RINAP Project research grants in 2008, 2010, and 2012 to help carry out its work. The publications of the RINAP Project are modeled on those of the now-defunct Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) Project and carry on where its Assyrian Periods sub-series (RIMA) ended.
From the website:
Numerous royally commissioned texts were composed between 744 BC and 669 BC, a period during which Assyria became the dominant power in southwestern Asia. Six hundred to six hundred and fifty such inscriptions are known today. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, under the direction of Professor Grant Frame of the University of Pennsylvania, will publish in print and online all of the known royal inscriptions that were composed during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sargon II (721-705 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), and Esarhaddon (680-669 BC), rulers whose deeds were also recorded in the Bible and in some classical sources. The individual texts range from short one-line labels to lengthy, detailed inscriptions with over 500 lines (2500 words) of text.
These Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions (744-669 BC) represent only a small, but important part of the vast Neo-Assyrian text corpus. They are written in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian and provide valuable insight into royal exploits, both on the battlefield and at home, royal ideology, and Assyrian religion. Most of our understanding of the political history of Assyria, and to some extent of Babylonia, comes from these sources. Because this large corpus of texts has not previously been published in one place, the RINAP Project will provide up-to-date editions (with English translations) of Assyrian royal inscriptions from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) to the reign of Esarhaddon (680-669 BC) in five print volumes and online, in a fully lemmatized and indexed format. The aim of the project is to make this vast text corpus easily accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. RINAP Online will allow those interested in Assyrian culture, history, language, religion, and texts to efficiently search Akkadian and Sumerian words appearing in the inscriptions and English words used in the translations. Project data will be fully integrated into the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) and the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc).
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the RINAP Project research grants in 2008, 2010, and 2012 to help carry out its work. The publications of the RINAP Project are modeled on those of the now-defunct Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) Project and carry on where its Assyrian Periods sub-series (RIMA) ended.
- About the Project
- Neo-Assyrian History Overview
- Browse Online Corpus
- Browse Tiglath-Pileser III Corpus
- Browse Shalmaneser V Corpus
- Browse Sennacherib Corpus
- Browse Esarhaddon Corpus
- Browse Sources
- Publications
- Names Index
- Index of Museum Numbers
- Index of Excavation Numbers
- Index of Excavation Photograph Numbers
- Texts Listed by Object Type
- Explore RINAP 1 Sub-project
- Explore RINAP 3 Sub-project
- Explore RINAP 4 Sub-project
- Explore Sources Sub-project
- Explore Scores Sub-project
- Publications
- Names Index
Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers relating to the ancient world
From AWOL:
Posted: 26 Nov 2014 06:30 AM PST
[Most recently updated 26 November 2014]
And see also Lexicity
And see also Smarthistory, a "multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook"
Textkit has a huge library of Greek and Latin textbooks
Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers relating to the ancient world
- Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (at Dickinson College)
- Ancient Greek Tutorials by Donald J. Mastronarde
- Ancient Sanskrit Online, by Karen Thomson and Jonathan Slocum
- Beginning Biblical Hebrew: A Grammar and Illustrated Reader [Online Companion], by John A. Cook and Robert D. Holmstedt.
- Classical Greek Online, by Winfred P. Lehmann and Jonathan Slocum
- Classical Armenian Online, by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum
- A Digital Tutorial For Ancient Greek Based on White's First Greek Book Created by Jeff Rydberg-Cox (Classical and Ancient Studies Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
- Getting started on Classical Latin
- Greek Language and Linguistics
- GREK 1332 online, by Dora Pozzi
- Hittite Online, by Winfred P. Lehmann and Jonathan Slocum
- Introducing Ancient Greek (Open University)
- Introduction to Manichaean Sogdian by P. Oktor Skjærvø
- Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs by Harri Kettunen and Christophe Helmke
- Introduction to Old Avestan by P. Oktor Skjærvø
- Introduction to Old Persian by P. Oktor Skjærvø
- Introduction to Sumerian Grammar by Daniel A. Foxvog / Elementary Sumerian Glossary / Timeline of Mesopotamian History / Chief Figures of the Mesopotamian Pantheon
- Introduction to Young Avestan by P. Oktor Skjærvø
- Introduction to Zoroastrianism by P. Oktor Skjærvø
- Introduction to Manicheism by P. Oktor Skjærvø
- Kurmanji Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings by W. M. Thackston
- Learning Latin by Luca Graverini
- New Testament Greek Online, by Winfred P. Lehmann and Jonathan Slocum
- New Testament Greek Vocabulary Assessment
- Old Iranian Online, by Scott L. Harvey and Jonathan Slocum
- Reading Classical Greek (Open Unversity)
- Sorani Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings by W. M. Thackston
- Thus Wrote Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (Third Edition), by Janet H. Johnson
- Tocharian Online, by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum
And see also Lexicity
And see also Smarthistory, a "multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook"
Textkit has a huge library of Greek and Latin textbooks
Learn Ancient Greek
Listed below is Textkit’s entire collection of Ancient Greek textbooks. All books are made available for full and free download in PDF format.Greek Answer Keys
A Brief Introduction to New Testament Greek Key, Samuel G. GreenFirst Greek Book Key, John Williams WhiteFirst Greek Writer Key, Arthur SidgwickGreek Prose Composition Key, North and HillardGreek Prose Composition Key, Arthur SidgwickGreek Composition Textbooks
First Greek Writer, Arthur SidgwickGreek Prose Composition, North and HillardIntroduction to Greek Prose Composition, Arthur SidgwickLectures on Greek Prose Composition, Arthur SidgwickSelections from the Septuagint, Conybeare and StockGreek Lexicon/Dictionary
First Four Books of Xenophon’s Anabasis, William W. GoodwinIllustrated Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis, John Williams WhitePocket Lexicon of Greek New Testament, Alexander SouterGreek Reading Text
Book Twelve of The Odyssey in Greek, Richard A. MinckwitzEasy Selections From Plato, Arthur SidgwickGeorgics Book IV in Latin, T.E. PagePlato’s Apology of Socrates and Crito in Greek, Louis DyerPrometheus Bound of Aeschylus in Greek, F. D. AllenSelections From Herodotus in Greek, W. Walter MerryThe Gospel of St. Luke in Greek, H.R. HeatleyThe Iliad by Homer Books XIX – XXIV in Greek, Edward B. ClappThe Odyssey by Homer Books V – VIII in Greek, B. PerrinXenophon’s Anabasis in Greek – Book VI, G.M. EdwardsGreek Reference Grammars
Greek Grammar, William W. GoodwinGreek Grammar, Herbert Weir SmythSyntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, William W. GoodwinGreek Textbooks
A Brief Introduction to New Testament Greek, Samuel G. GreenA First Greek Course, Sir William SmithA Short Syntax of New Testament Greek, H.P.V. NunnFirst Greek Book, John Williams WhiteFirst Greek Grammar Accidence, W. Gunion RutherfordFirst Greek Grammar Syntax, W. Gunion RutherfordHomeric Greek – A Book For Beginners, Clyde PharrIntroduction to the Language and Verse of Homer, Thomas D. SeymourNT Greek in a Nutshell, James StrongLearn Latin
Listed below is Textkit’s entire collection of Latin textbooks. All books are made available for full and free download in PDF format.Latin Answer Keys
Latin for Beginner’s Key, Benjamin L. D’OogeLatin Prose Composition Key, North and HillardLatin Composition Textbooks
A New Latin Prose Composition, Charles E. BennettLatin Prose Composition, North and HillardLatin Reading Text
Caesar’s Civil War in Latin, Charles E. MoberlyCaesar’s Gallic War Commentaries – Literal Translation, Rev. Dr. GilesCatiline Orations of Cicero – Literal Translation, Rev. Dr. GilesCicero Select Orations, Benjamin L. D’OogeExtracts From Cicero – Sections I & II in Latin, Henry WalfordLatin Prose Composition Based on Cicero, Henry Carr PearsonLivy Book XXI in Latin, W.W. CapesLivy Books I & II in Latin, J.B. GreenoughOvid’s Metamorphoses – Literal Translation, Rev. Dr. GilesSelect Orations of Cicero – Interlinear, Thomas ClarkSelections From Ovid, Allen & GreenoughThe Phormio of Terence in Latin, Fairclough and RichardsonLatin Reference Grammars
A Latin Grammar, Charles E. BennettNew Latin Grammar, Allen & GreenoughLatin Textbooks
Beginner’s Latin Book, Collar and DaniellLatin For Beginners, Benjamin L. D’OogeSecond Year Latin – Part 1 – Selections of Easy Latin, J.B. Greenough
Monday, November 17, 2014
More goodies from SBL's Open Access Monograph Series
Some of these have already been available, but I'm posting them in case you missed them along with the newer works:
ANCIENT NEAR EAST MONOGRAPHS / MONOGRAFIAS SOBRE EL ANTIGUO CERCANO ORIENTE
ANCIENT NEAR EAST MONOGRAPHS / MONOGRAFIAS SOBRE EL ANTIGUO CERCANO ORIENTE
The focus of this ambitious series is on the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel and its literature, from the early Neolithic to the early Hellenistic eras. Studies that are heavily philological or archaeological are both suited to this series, and can take full advantage of the hypertext capabilities of “born digital” publication. Multiple author and edited volumes as well as monographs are accepted. Proposals and manuscripts may be submitted in either English or Spanish. Manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two scholars in the area before acceptance. Published volumes will be held to the high scholarly standards of the SBL and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente. The partnership between the SBL and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente was initiated under the auspices of SBL’s International Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and represents the type of international scholarly exchange that is the goal of ICI.
Published Volumes:
| Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew : Steps Toward an Integrated Approach by Robert Rezetko and Ian Young |
download | paperback | hardback |
| Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion by C.L. Crouch |
download | paperback | hardback |
| Divination, Politics, & Ancient Near Eastern Empires Edited by Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Stökl |
download | paperback | hardback |
| Deuteronomy-Kings as Emerging Authoritative Books: A Conversation
by Diana V. Edelman (Editor) |
download | paperback | hardback |
| The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel by Israel Finkelstein |
download | paperback | hardback |
| Constructs of Prophecy in the Former and Latter Prophets and Other Texts Edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Martti Nissinen |
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| Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction Alan Lenzi |
download | paperback | |
| El Intercambio de Bienes entre Egipto y Asia Anterior: Desde el reinado de Tuthmosis III hasta el de Akhenaton Graciela Gestoso Singer |
download | ||
| Centro y periferia en
el mundo antiguo: El Negev y sus interacciones con Egipto, Asiria, y el
Levante en la Edad del Hierro (1200-586 a.C.) Juan Manuel Tebes download |
OUP free articles for Bible Week
Oxford University Press is celebrating Bible Week by making the following articles available:
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
- A Textbook Example of the Christian Right: The National Council on Bible
Curriculum in Public Schools
Mark A. Chancey - Before Mormonism: Joseph Smith's Use of the Bible, 1820–1829
Philip L. Barlow - Dead or Alive?: Literality and God-Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible
Gary Alan Long - New Directions in Biblical Theology: The Impact of Contemporary
Scholarship in the Hebrew Bible
Robert Gnuse
Journal of Church and State
The Journal of Theological Studies
- Bringing the Academic Discipline of Psychology to Bear on the Study of the Bible
Joanna Collicutt - ‘Thou Shalt Commit Adultery’ (Exod. 20:14, AV 1631): A First Survey of Alteration
Involving Negatives in the Transmission of the Greek New Testament and of Early
Church Responses to it
J. Lionel North - From ‘God’ (ΘΕΟΣ) to ‘God’ (ΝΟΥΤΕ): A New Discussion and Proposal Regarding
John 1:1C and the Sahidic Coptic Version of the New Testament
Brian J. Wright and Tim Ricchuiti -
Five New Testament Manuscripts: Recently Discovered Fragments in a Private Collection in Cambridge
Peter M. Head
Literature and Theology
- 'Vain are the thousand creeds': Wuthering Heights, the Bible and Liberal Protestantism
Simon Marsden
Modern Judaism
- How to Read the Bible According to Leo Strauss
Ehud Luz - Toward a Modern Torah: Moses Mendelssohn's Use of a Banned Bible
Paul Spalding - The Place of the Bible in Israeli Society: From National Midrash to Existential Peshat
Uriel Simon
Sociology of Religion
- Understanding
a Cultural Identity: The Confluence of Education, Politics, and
Religion within the American Concept of Biblical Literalism
Aaron B. Franzen and Jenna Griebel - More than “Alone with the Bible”: Reconceptualizing Religious Reading
Emily K. Ronald - They Danced in the Bible: Identity Integration among Christian Women Who Belly Dance
Rachel Kraus
Christian Bioethics
- Christian Bioethics and the Bible
Dónal P. O’Mathúna - What Makes Christian Bioethics Christian? Bible, Story, and Communal Discernment
H. Tristram Engelhardt
Thursday, November 13, 2014
books from ASOR
Four ASOR books are available in open access on the ASOR Website:
- 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.
- Swiny, Stuart. The earliest prehistory of Cyprus : from colonization to exploitation. ISBN: 0897570510 xiv, 171 p. : ill., maps 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.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Tyndale Bulletin
http://www.tyndalehouse.com/TynBul/Library/00_TyndaleBulletin_ByAuthor.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Tyndale+House+Briefing+3000+Years+of+Hebrew&utm_content=Tyndale+House+Briefing+3000+Years+of+Hebrew+CID_d8c37e56141659531ec5493324a6bce8&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=here#M
Tyndale House is an evangelical research library in Cambridge, UK. Follow the URL above for an author index of articles that have been published in the Tyndale Bulletin.
Tyndale House is an evangelical research library in Cambridge, UK. Follow the URL above for an author index of articles that have been published in the Tyndale Bulletin.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Hell-on-Line
http://www.hell-on-line.org/
This one's so, well, different that I have to post it. From the home page:
This one's so, well, different that I have to post it. From the home page:
HELL-ON-LINE is developing as a comprehensive on-line collection of over 100 visions, tours and descriptions of the infernal otherworld from the cultures of the world: principally from the Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Zoroastrian, Islamic and Jewish traditions from 2000 BCE to the present. These texts reveal the development of hell and its relationship to ideas of judgment, reincarnation, salvation, the apocalypse, and cyclic time. Visionaries and voyagers describe the geography of the underworld. Much like any other travelers, they lay out locations and distances, compass points, and physical characteristics, especially the surface features: oceans, mountains, rivers, roads, bridges and ditches. They also describe the inhabitants — both human souls and evil spirits — and the relationships between them, as they fulfill their particular doom, engendered by sins committed in this life, according to the laws and norms of the next life.
THIS INTERACTIVE COMPILATION of texts and images describes the “place” that has preoccupied the imagination for four millennia. From hell’s origins, through its mature formulations across a variety of world cultures, to its questionable status in our own hands and minds, the selections include texts from across the world – including several works never before available in English – and images from historical cultures to the current press and cinema.THIS ON-LINE RESOURCE is a work in progress and will serve as a searchable encyclopedia on the history, geography, population, motifs, and meaning of hell throughout its long history.
As of August 29, 2011, extensive materials on Ancient Near Eastern, Zoroastrian, Egyptian, Judeo-Christian, Buddhist and Hindu hell are now available online.Introduction, timeline, bibliography, interactive index, and other electronic tools will be available free online. App. 100 full-text readings are being made be available for purchase as downloadable PDFs and now also as paperbacks available through amazon.com.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Studia Orientalia Electronica
http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/StOrE/index
From the site:
From the site:
Welcome to the website of Studia Orientalia Electronica (StOrE)! StOrE is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal publishing original research articles and reviews in all fields of Asian and African studies. It is an offshoot of Studia Orientalia, an internationally recognized publication series (see http://www.suomenitamainenseura.org/studiaorientalia/ for further information on Studia Orientalia and the publisher, Finnish Oriental Society). StOrE was established in 2013 to keep up the fine publishing tradition of Studia Orientalia. The new journal publishes high quality articles in a more modern and accessible format.
The first volume (year 2013) of Studia Orientalia Electronica has been published (see Archives section). Furthermore, some articles of back issues of the printed Studia Orientalia are found in the Archives section and more are coming soon. In the Current section you will find the articles of 2014 (vol. 2) of StOrE.
Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal’s section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Journal of the Jesus Movement in Its Jewish Setting--From the First to the Seventh Century
http://www.jjmjs.org/
From the website:
Here are the articles of the inaugural edition:
From the website:
JJMJS is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal, published in cooperation with Eisenbrauns.
A rich variety of Jewish and Christian traditions and identities mutually shaped one another in the centuries-long course of Roman Late Antiquity. A no less rich variety of scholarly approaches – from the history of Christian Origins to that of the late empire, from archaeology to Dead Sea Scrolls, from Rabbinics to Patristics – has in recent years converged upon this period, the better to understand its religious and social dynamics. JJMJS seeks to facilitate and to encourage such scholarly investigations across disciplinary boundaries, and to make the results of cutting-edge research available to a worldwide audience.
JJMJS is free of charge with complete open access. The journal is published in cooperation with Eisenbrauns and will be available in hard copy, which can be ordered from Eisenbrauns.
Here are the articles of the inaugural edition:
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
New Book: Israel and the Assyrians
From SBL's series Ancient Near East Monographs:
Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion
Was Deuteronomy created to be a subversive text based on Assyian treaties?
In this new book Crouch focuses on Deuteronomy’s subversive intent, asking what would be required in order for Deuteronomy to successfully subvert either a specific Assyrian source or Assyrian ideology more generally. The book reconsiders the nature of the relationship between Deuteronomy and Assyria, Deuteronomy’s relationship to ancient Near Eastern and biblical treaty and loyalty oath traditions, and the relevance of Deuteronomy’s treaty affinities to discussions of its date.
Features:C. L. Crouch is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. She is the author of The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy (Brill, 2014).
- A thorough investigation of the nature and requirements of subversion
- A focused examination of the context in which Deuteronomy would have functioned
- An appendix focused on redactional questions related to Deuteronoy 13 and 28
Monday, October 13, 2014
The Biblical Annals
http://www.biblicalannals.eu/english.html
From the website:
From the website:
Journal of the Institute of Biblical Studies of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, dedicated to biblical studies on the Old and New Testament, and intertestamentary literature, covers fields of research, such as exegesis, philology, and history.
The Biblical Annals has been published since 1954 by the Institute of Biblical Studies, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland, first under the title Roczniki Teologiczne, fascicle 1, then Roczniki Biblijne; it is a research journal and appeared once a year until 2012; since 2013 it appears twice a year.
Index of issues
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
| T-0_1 | T-1_1 | T-2_1 | T-3_1 | T-3_2 | T-4_1 |
All publications
Friday, October 3, 2014
Recent offerings from the British Museum
The British Museum has announced open-access availability for many resources.
For the ancient NE, of particular interest in the book category is Pamela Magrill's A Researcher's Guide to the Lachish Collection in the British Museum (2006):
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_publications/online_publications/the_lachish_collection.aspx
There is, furthermore, more on the BM's cuneiform involvement with CDLI:
For the ancient NE, of particular interest in the book category is Pamela Magrill's A Researcher's Guide to the Lachish Collection in the British Museum (2006):
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_publications/online_publications/the_lachish_collection.aspx
There is, furthermore, more on the BM's cuneiform involvement with CDLI:
In these pages, the Department of the Middle East of the British Museum and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), an international research project based at the University of California, Los Angeles, present a database of the inscribed objects in the London collection. In an initial phase of this collaboration funded by a grant from by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Jonathan Taylor and Marieka Arksey are digitizing the library and archives of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria. A series of excavations at the mound of Kuyunjik (ancient Nineveh) during the 19th and early 20th centuries discovered thirty thousand inscriptions. These texts underpin cuneiform studies, and still form a core resource for our understanding of the social and intellectual history of ancient Mesopotamia.
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