Thursday, October 23, 2014

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.

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:

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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evans_jant_review.pdf
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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:
  • 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).

Monday, October 13, 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

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:
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