Intertextuality in Biblical Studies: A Core Bibliography

http://kolhaadam.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/intertextuality-in-biblical-studies-a-core-bibliography/

The author of this blog lists several works on intertextuality according to two subcategories: literary theory and biblical studies. Here's the author's introductory remarks:

Writing an “intertextual” analysis or using the “method of intertextuality” has become a veritable rite of passage for scholars in biblical studies, as though this were a well established critical practice in our discipline. Unfortunately this is not the case, and those who use the term are entering, often unwittingly, into an academic battleground for which they are ill equipped. Intertextuality is a contested term, and those who use it would do well to understand the nature of the controversy at hand. The literature on this subject is vast, spanning countless works in literary theory and biblical studies. Below, I have compiled a core bibliography that represents essential studies within the two fields.

Those whose interests concern literary allusions would do well to avoid the language of intertextuality altogether and focus on the more relevant theoretical literature.

A Bibliography of Semitic Linguistics (1940-2010)

http://www.semiticbibliography.org/

This site offers a focused bibliography for Semitic linguistics. From the home page:

It seems obligatory at the beginning of this bibliography to set out its limits and justify its objectives. The aim of the bibliography is to collect and arrange systematically only those studies directly or mainly related to subjects of Semitic linguistics, namely, those centred on the study of languages and their phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic constituents, from both the comparative perspective (close and distant relationship) and the immanent perspective (grammar and lexicon). Consequently, all other studies dealing with the history of the societies which use or used those languages and with everything that is built on them (socio-political history, literature, religion and ‘culture’ in general), remain excluded. This limitation may seem impossible or at the very least without justification and minimalist, in some way resorting to ‘formalism’, giving up the basic element, whose development a language has to perform, namely, the shaping of a universe of social representations, which generates a particular way of communication and creativity. One could say that it means abandoning the ‘context’ in which every linguistic formulation has its meaning, being at the same time its outcome.

Greek Language and Linguistics

http://greek-language.com/

From the home page:

In addition to tools to support learning Ancient Greek, we provide resources to encourage the study of various forms of Linguistics and their application to Ancient Greek. Our objective is to foster the application of research methods from the field of Linguistics to the study of Hellenic and Hellenistic Greek.

Whether you are a Biblical Scholar, a Classicist, or a student of Linguistics, you will find something here of interest to you.

Books from ASOR

From AWOL:

Four ASOR books are available in open access:

• 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.

An additional eleven ASOR books are available by license through JSTOR books

	Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskander and its Environs, Jordan	2009			Book
	The Ayl to Ras an-Naqab Archaeological Survey, Southern Jordan 2005-2007	2012			Book
	Humayma Excavation Project, 1	2010			Book
	The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports	2009			Book
	The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports	2007			Book
	On the Third Dynasty of Ur	2008			Book
	The Roman Marble Sculptures from the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi/Panias (Israel)	2012			Book
	Shechem IV: The Persian-Hellenistic Pottery of Shechem/Tell Balât'ah	2008			Book
	Tel Tanninim: Excavations at Krokodeilon Polis, 1996-1999	2006			Book
	Texts from the Late Old Babylonian Period	2011			Book
	The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature	2012			Book

Update: The Friedberg Genizah Project

An update to the post of 19 July 2011 regarding the FGP:


The announcement:

http://tinyurl.com/k9cm2ap

The Friedberg Genizah Project
Announcement 14

Genazim is pleased to announce the launching of a new version  -
version 12 - of the Friedberg Genizah Website.

This version contains thousands of new images, thousands of new scans
of catalog entries, tens of thousands of new records of cataloging
data and of transcriptions, and many additions and improvements to the
software system, among them a new module that can help researchers
find, in the Genizah world, potential joins to a given fragment.

 Which directs you to: http://www.jewishmanuscripts.org/ 

2 books from Lawrence Shiffman

http://lawrenceschiffman.com/?wysija-page=1&controller=email&action=view&email_id=24&wysijap=subscriptions

Lawrence Shiffman has made open access the following two (short) books:

The Jews in Late Antiquity

The Hellenistic period begins formally with Alexander’s arrival in the Near East in 334 B.C.E. However, this date should not be seen as the beginning of Hellenistic influence in this region. The Near East as a whole and the Land of Israel and its Jewish residents more particularly were subject to increasing Aegean influence beginning already in the fourteenth century B.C.E. Due to increased trade connections, this influence became much more extensive during the Persian period when Greek coinage became the standard in the Land of Israel. The cultural phenomenon we call Hellenism was a power which would have a lasting impact on Judaism and the Jewish people.

Challenge and Transformation: Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism

The years of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine rule in Judea and of Sassanian rule in Babylonia were years of great challenge to the ongoing continuity of Judaism, and, at the same time, years of great accomplishment which resulted in the successful meeting of these challenges. By the time the period of Late Antiquity drew to a close, Judaism had survived the challenges of Hellenization, sectarianism, violent revolution, and even anti-Semitism. In addition, the development of Israelite religion into the rabbinic tradition took place in these very same years. The many transitions that took place in this period are what effectively made possible the long-term continuity of Judaism as an exilic religion, able to enter the medieval period with a new consensus on how to face the future and explain the past.

SBL Ancient Near East Monographs series

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

To date five books have been published through this open-access site.