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

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	download	paperback
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

• Sectarian Elements in Public School Bible Courses: Lessons from the Lone Star State
  Mark A. Chancey

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

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

As of August 29, 2011, extensive materials on Ancient Near Eastern, Zoroastrian, Egyptian, Judeo-Christian, Buddhist and Hindu hell are now available online.