Studia Orientalia Electronica

http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/StOrE/index

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.

Journal of the Jesus Movement in Its Jewish Setting--From the First to the Seventh Century

http://www.jjmjs.org/

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:

introducing_jjmjs.pdf

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elgvin_gabriel_inscription.pdf

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nanos_pauls_non-jews.pdf

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roth_shared_interpretive_traditions.pdf

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ruzer_the_epistle_of_james.pdf

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klawans_heresy_without_orthodoxy.pdf

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zetterholm_alternate_visions_of_judaism.pdf

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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:

• 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

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).

The Biblical Annals

http://www.biblicalannals.eu/english.html

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

The Biblical Psalter as a Book?

Solomon’s Riding Horses, Throne Hall, and Virgo Constellation according to the Song of Songs

How Do the Psalms Come from God?

The Dynamism of Salvation according to Isa 12:1-6

Genealogies of the Book of Genesis

Reasons for the Omission of Ezra in Sir 44–50

The Defeat of Heliodorus according to 2 Macc in Relation to Micah Sanctuary Interpreted by Pseudo-Philo

The Comparative Method (religionsgeschichtliche Methode) in the Exegese of the Biblical Text

La prière des disciples à la transfi guration de Jésus. Une leçon de Mc 9,2c

Nomos and ho nomos in Paul’s Letters

Review: Stéphanie Anthonioz, L’eau, enjeux politiques et théologiques, de Sumer à la Bible

Review: P. Hugo and A. Schenker (eds.), Archaeology of the Books of Samuel. The Entangling of the Textual and Literary History

Review: Das Bild Jesu Christi im Lichte des NT. Ein Beitrag zur analogischen Christologie des NT

Review: Francesca Rochberg, In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy

Review: Josef A. Seeanner, Die Barmherzigkeit (eleos) im Matthäusevangelium. Rettende Vergebung

Review: Neuer Wettstein. Texte zum Neuen Testament aus Griechentum und Hellenismus, Bd. I,1,1: Texte zum Markusevangelium (Hrsg. U. Schnelle, unter Mitarbeit von M. Lang – M. Labahn)

Review: Łukasz Laskowski, Motyw potopu jako nowego stworzenia w Biblii

Report: The Symposium Concluding the Celebration of the Centenary From the Foundation of the Pontifi cal Biblical Institute (Rome, 3-8th of May 2010)

Report: Duszpasterskie Wykłady Akademickie (KUL, 27-28 sierpnia 2010)

Report: IV Jesienne Międzynarodowe Dni Biblijne (KUL, 22-23 października 2009)

Report: Biblical Institute of CUL 2009/2010

Editorial Instructions for Contributors (pl)

Editorial Instructions for Contributors

Knowledge Transmission in the Context of the Watchers’ Sexual Sin with the Women in 1 Enoch 6-11

Hittites and Hurrians in the Bible

In Search for the Assyrian Israelite Diaspora in the Book of Ezekiel

The Assyrian Diaspora of Israelites in the Light of the Book of Ezekiel – An Answer to Wojciech Pikor

Commemorative Book devoted to Fr. prof. dr hab. Hugolin Langkammer

The Polemic of John 8,31-59 in the Context of Jewish and Christian Literature

"Election" as a Salvific Category According to Romans 9. Study of Biblical Concept.

The Origin of the Theological Message of the Biblical Account of the Flood (Gen 6-9)

David and Goliat, i.e. a Controversy About What Kind of Image of David does 1 Samuel 17,1-18,5 present?

1 Cor 15,3b-8 as the Synthesis of the Christian Doctrine on Jesus

Epiphany of Christ and Gods Reign as a Motivation of Encouragemtn in 1 Tm 6,11-16

Saint Paul in the Context of Jewish, Greek and Roman World.

Heilsgeographie - Geography of Salvation. The Obscured Idea of the Holy Space.

Review, Krzysztof Mielcarek, Jerusalem, Hierosolyma. Old Testament and Hellenistic roots of the Lucan picture of the holy city in the light of Greek onomastics.

Report: The Institute of Biblical Studies

Zechariah 6:12-13 as the Referent of γραфή in John 2:22 and 20:9

Lack of Coherence in Paul’s Exposition in Rom 2:1-29? A Critical Assessment of Ed Parish Sanders’s Hypothesis

Pope Benedict XVI’s Hermeneutics of Faith

Polish Biblical Bibliography for 2010–2011

Review: Jean-Noël Aletti, God’s Justice in Romans: Keys for Interpreting the Epistle to the Romans (trans. from the French by Peggy Manning Meyer) (Subsidia Biblica 37; Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2010). Pp. vii, 336. € 27,00. ISBN 978-88-7653-647-2

Review: Kathel Berthelot and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Aramaica Qumranica: Proceedings of the Conference on the Aramaic Texts from Qumran in Aix-en-Provence, 30 June-2 July 2008 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 94; Leiden: Brill, 2010). Pp. xii, 624. €180, $255. ISBN 978-900-418-7863

Review: John J. Kilgallen, A Wealth of Revelation: The Four Evangelists’ Introductions to Their Gospels (Subsidia Biblica 34; Roma: EPIB, 2009). Pp. xvi, 142. € 20.00. ISBN 978-88-7653-640-3

Review: Józef Kudasiewicz – Henryk Witczyk, Jesus and the Gospels in the fire of discussions. From H. Reimarusa to T. Polak (Biblioteka „Verbum Vitae” 2; Kielce: Instytut Teologii Biblijnej „Verbum”, 2011). Ss. 496. 45 zł. ISBN 978-83-930-550-2-9

Review: Helge S. Kvanvig, Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic. An Intertextual Reading (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 148; Leiden: Brill, 2011). Pp. xvi, 610. € 184, $ 251. ISBN 978-90-04-16380-5

Review: George W.E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam, 1 Enoch 2: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch. Chapters 37-82 (Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012). Pp. xxx, 617. $ 82. ISBN 978-0-8006-9666-1

Review: Elżbieta M. Obara, The strategies of God: the comunicative dinamisms in the divine speeches of Trito-Isaiah (Analecta Biblica 188; Roma: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2010). Pp. 504. € 37. ISBN 978-88-7653-188-0

Review: Marek Parchem, The final victory of God in the battle between good and evil in the light of Dead Sea Scrolls (Rozprawy i Studia Biblijne 30; Warszawa: Ofi cyna Wydawnicza „Vocatio”, 2008). Ss. 596. 60 zł. ISBN 978-83-7492-072-8

Review: Rajmund Pietkiewicz, In the search of „the genuine Gods word”. The reception of the Westerneuropean Hebrew studies in the Christian research in Poland in the time of the Renaissance (Rozprawy Naukowe PWT 86; Wrocław: Wydawnictwo PWT, 2011). Ss. 308. 48 zł. ISBN: 978-83-7454-176-3

Recenzja: Jean-Sébastien Rey and Jan Joosten (eds.), The Texts and Versions of the Book of Ben Sira. Transmission and Interpretation (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 150; Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2011). Pp. ix, 352. €128 /$175. ISBN 978-90-04 20692-2

Review: Grzegorz Szamocki, The Israelites cross the Jordan (Joshua 3:1–5:1). The Historiography, theology, parenesis (Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2011). Ss. 467. 45 zł. ISBN 978-83-7326-792-3

Academic Activity of the Institute of Biblical Studies KUL in the Year 2010/2011

News report: The First Biblical Congress of the Biblical Work Association

Cult Prostitution and Passage Rites in the Biblical World

The Subjecthood of the Land of Israel in the Book of Ezekiel

The Professional Knowledge of Asael (1 En. 8,1) and its Relation to Ancient Mesopotamia

Jesus’ Disciples in the Hour of the Trial (John 18-19) as a Place of the Revelation of the Master

‘As a miscarriage’. The meaning and function of the metaphor in 1 Cor 15:1-11 in light of Num 12:12 (LXX)

The Historical Aspect of Jesus and His Gospel. The Sixty Years of Research of Biblical Scholars from KUL

The fifty years of the existence of the Catholic University of Lublin’s Biblical School

Review: Erlend Gehlken, Weather Omens of “Enūma Anu Enlil”: Thunderstorms, Wind and Rain (Tablets 44-49) (Cuneiform Monographs 43; Leiden: Brill, 2012). Pp. x, 286. Pl. 47. € 105. ISBN 978-90-04-22588-6

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Cult Prostitution and Passage Rites in the Biblical World

Review: Adam Kubiś, The Book of Zechariah in the Gospel of John (Études bibliques, Nouvelle série 64; Pendé: Gabalda, 2012). Pp. 590. € 75.00. ISBN 978-2-85021- 214-7

Review: Jože Krašovec, The Transformation of Biblical Proper Names (Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies 418; New York – London: T & T Clark, 2010). Pp. xiii. 152. $ 110,00. ISBN 978-0-567-45224-5

Review: Jean-Noël Aletti, Essai sur l’ecclésiologie des lettres de saint Paul (Études Bibliques nouvelle série 60; Pendé: Gabalda et Cie, 2009). Pp. 218. € 45. ISBN 2-85021-194-1

Review: Bartosz Adamczewski, Retelling the Law. Genesis, Exodus- -Numbers, and Samuel-Kings as Sequential Hypertextu al Reworkings of Deuteronomy. (European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions 1; Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012). Pp. 376. € 62,80. ISBN 978-3- 631-63034-1

Review: Joel B. Green, ed., Methods for Luke. Methods in Biblical Interpretation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Pp. x + 157. $ 26.00. ISBN 978-0-521-71781-6

Review: Maciej Münnich, Reszef – bóg starożytnego Orientu (Studia Historico -Biblica 3; Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2011). Ss. 414. PLN 46. ISBN 978-83-7702-272-6

Review: Amanda Witmer, Jesus, the Galilean Exorcist. His Exorcisms in Social and Political Context (Library of New Testament Studies. Library of the Historical Jesus Studies 10; London: T&T Clark International, 2012). Pp. 247. $ 120. ISBN 978- 0-567-57552-4

Review: Anna Kuśmirek, Balaam i jego wyrocznie (Lb 22–24) w tradycji targumicznej (Warszawa: Ofi cyna Wydawnicza „Vocatio”, 2011). Ss. 533. PLN 65. ISBN 978-83-7492-193-0

Review: Anna Kuśmirek, Balaam i jego wyrocznie (Lb 22–24) w tradycji targumicznej (Warszawa: Ofi cyna Wydawnicza „Vocatio”, 2011). Ss. 533. PLN 65. ISBN 978-83-7492-193-0

Report: Academic Activity of the Institute of Biblical Studies CUL in the year 2011/2012

Report: Doctorate Honoris Causa for H. E. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, September 27th 2012)

Report: Report from the 8th International Biblical Conference, “From the Faith of Abraham to the Faith of the Church” (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 18–19 October 2012)

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:

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.

View the Kuyunjik Collection Download Geers copies of Kuyunjik tablets BM tablets by period:    Late Uruk (ca. 3400-3000 BC)    Early Dynastic I-II (ca. 2900-2700 BC)    Early Dynastic IIIa (ca. 2600 BC)    Early Dynastic IIIb (ca. 2500-2350 BC)    Old Akkadian (ca. 2350-2200 BC)    Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)    Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC)    Old Assyrian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)    Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1600 BC)    Middle Babylonian (ca. 1500-1000 BC)    Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500-1000 BC)    Neo-Assyrian (ca. 1000-600 BC)    Neo-Babylonian (ca. 1000-540 BC)    Achaemenid (ca. 540-330 BC)    Hellenistic (ca. 330-140 BC)    Uncertain date BM tablets by provenience:    Alalakh    Amarna    Babylon    Borsippa    Diqdiqqah    Drehem    Eridu    Fara    Girsu    Jemdet Nasr    Kish    Kültepe    Larsa    Nineveh    Nimrud    Nippur    Nuzi    Sippar    Tell Brak    Ubaid    Umma    Ur    Uruk    unclear BM tablets by text genre:    Administrative texts    Literary texts    Omina    Prayers/Incantations    Lexical texts    Mathematical texts    School texts    Scientific texts    Letters    Royal/Monumental texts BM tablets by type:    bricks    cones    sealings    tags    stone inscriptions    metal inscriptions    other