Monday, March 31, 2014

New Testament Transcripts

http://nttranscripts.uni-muenster.de/

From the home page:

New Testament Transcripts features important Greek manuscripts of the New Testament as transcribed by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany. The site is being prepared in collaboration with Scholarly Digital Editions (Birmingham, UK) and is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn, Germany).

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

More from JSTOR

Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel / חדשותארכיאולוגיות: חפירותוסקריםבישראל (Hebrew Journals)
Previous Title: Hadashot Arkheologiyot / חדשותארכיאולוגיות
Coverage:
Vols. 1-108 (1961-1998);
Vols. 109-116 (1999-2004)
Moving Wall: zero
Publisher: Israel Antiquities Authority
ISSN: 1565-043X
Note: Content for this title is released as soon as the latest issues become available to JSTOR.
Note: Beginning with Vol. 116 (2004), this journal has been published online. - See more.

[n.b.: the above is also available open access]

Hebrew Union College Annual (Jewish Studies)
Coverage: Vols. 2-81 (1925-2010)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
ISSN: 0360-9049 - See more
Previously Missing Issues

Lithic Technology  (Arts & Sciences IX)
Coverage:
Vol. 7, No. 1 April, 1978);
Vol. 9, Nos. 1-3 (April-December, 1980);
Vol. 11, No. 1 (April, 1982);
Vol. 12, Nos. 1-3 (April-December, 1983);
Vol. 13, Nos. 1 & 3 (April & December, 1984);
Vol. 15, No. 1 (April, 1986);
Vol. 16, No. 2/3 (December, 1987);
Vol. 32, No. 2 (Fall, 2007)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Maney Publishing
ISSN: 0197-7261 - See more

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Ancient Locations: Database of Archaeological Sites

http://www.ancientlocations.net/

The site's main categories are:
- Zagros, Elam, Iran
- Mesopotamia
- Egypt
- Kush and Aethiopia
- Levant

Sites have longitude and latitude and links to Wikimedia, Google Maps, Bing, and Open Street Map

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Nuzi-Texte

The Oriental Institute Coffin Texts Publication Project

From the AWOL website:
 With the appearance of this volume, the oriental institute marks the true completion of the egyptian Coffin Texts Project, an international cooperative program begun by James Henry breasted and Alan H. Gardiner in 1922 and edited by Adriaan De Buck from 1935 until his death in 1959. When published in 1961, volume 7, De Buck’s final volume, was announced as “the last volume of the autographed Coffin Texts in the contemplated Project” (p. vii), although the Oriental Institute had never produced the autographed edition of Pyramid Texts within the Coffin Text corpus that had been explicitly promised in the introduction to volume 1. Assumed to comprise a “distinct” and “foreign body” within the Coffin Texts, these long-lived spells were “reserved for later” (p. xi). After a lapse of forty years, a formally renewed Coffin Texts Project was authorized by the director in 2001, with the goal of completing the Oriental Institute’s outstanding commitments. The translation volume once envisioned and entrusted to Tjalling Bruinsma had been rendered unnecessary by the publications of Raymond O. Faulkner in 1969 (Pyramid Texts) and 1973 –1978 (Coffin Texts), which serve to engage scholars and laymen alike. Glossaries, bibliographies, symposia, and detailed textual studies appeared, but the critical edition of middle Kingdom Pyramid Texts remained unaccomplished. by careful examination of the oriental institute’s original collation sheets and unpublished sources from Lisht, James P. Allen, after years of concentrated study, has now fulfilled the task admirably. It is hoped that the new edition stimulates discussion not only of the longevity of the Pyramid Texts, but of the nature of the Coffin Texts themselves. While breasted insisted that the Pyramid Texts were “sharply distinguished” from the Coffin Texts,1 the frequent appearance of “Pyramid Texts” on coffins (among the narrowly defined “Coffin Texts”) leaves this opinion open to question. ironically, the one coffin acquired in Chicago by breasted for study by the Coffin Texts Project (oim 12072) contained only “Pyramid Texts” and was therefore excluded from the initial seven volumes. now at last these middle Kingdom texts on a coffin can be examined among the “Coffin Texts.”  

Robert K. Ritner
Director, The Egyptian Coffin Texts Project, 2001– 2006
[Preface to volume 8]

Thursday, March 13, 2014

The Latin Library

State Archives of Assyria Bulletin

http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/saab.html

State Archives of Assyria Bulletin (SAAB) is published twice a year as an international forum for discussion on Assyria and Assyrian texts. The journal is concerned with articles illustrating the history, philology and linguistics of the texts stemming from the ancient Assyrian state archives, and any related topic. The journal was conceived as part of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Projectand was originally intended to supplement the SAA series of text publications by offering a vehicle for the publication of new texts and of detailed commentary on texts or text genres that would be out of place in the format established for the SAA volumes. SAAB quickly outgrew these narrow limitations and now accepts articles on any topic relating to Assyria in its largest sense, including philology, history, geography and archaeology.

The Bulletin is part of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project (http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/).

SBL's Ancient Near East Monographs

http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/Books_ANEmonographs.aspx

From the home page:
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. 

Monday, March 10, 2014

The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies

http://place.asburyseminary.edu/jibs/

From the home page:

The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies intends to promote the hermeneutical approach to the study of the Scriptures generally known as Inductive Biblical Studies. By Inductive Biblical Study (IBS) we mean the hermeneutical movement initiated by William Rainey Harper and Wilbert Webster White that was embodied in the curriculum of The Biblical Seminary in New York founded in 1900. This approach had precursors in the history of interpretation and has since the beginning of the twentieth-century enjoyed widespread dissemination, being taught at such institutions as Princeton Theological Seminary, Columbia Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, Fuller Theological Seminary, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Azusa Pacific University, and Asbury Theological Seminary, as well as hundreds of other institutions and organizations around the world. For more detailed description of IBS, see Bauer and Traina, Inductive Bible Study: A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice of Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011) and the IBS website at http://www.inductivebiblicalstudy.com/.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Oriental Institute Seminars (OIS)

http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/ois/

Several freely downloadable monographs from the OI:

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Hebrew Studies Journal

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hebrew+Studies+Journal-p22237

There's nothing about the journal on this link. Here's the description from AWOL:

Hebrew Studies Journal is a journal devoted to Hebrew language and literature. It is an internationally recognized scholarly journal devoted to studies of Hebrew language and literature of all periods.