Tuesday, March 31, 2009

EThOS - Electronic Theses Online Service

EThOS - Electronic Theses Online Service (beta)

The aim of EThOS is:

* To offer a 'single point of access' where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education
* To support Higher Education Institutions through the transition from print to e-theses
* To help UK Higher Education Institutions expand available content by digitising paper theses
* To demonstrate the quality of UK research and help attract students and research investment into UK HE

To achieve this, EThOS offers a coherent and consistent interface by implementing a central 'hub' comprising an e-store and a digitisation suite at The British Library site in Boston Spa, Yorkshire. The hub automatically harvests e-theses from Institutional Repositories and digitises paper theses from participating institutions to offer the single point of access..

Many UK institutions support Open Access to their theses, so download of their digital and digitised theses is free to the researcher. A small number of participating institutions may not be able to offer Open Access and in this case the researcher may have to pay for the digitisation.

Where a thesis must be digitised before supply, you can expect a short delay. However, you will be informed when the thesis is ready for collection and you can then log on to the system and download it.

EThOS can only offer the theses of participating institutions. While we expect a large number of institutions to take part, we cannot supply from an institutions which chooses not to. In this case, you should approach the institution's library directly to gain access to a thesis
A search of the keyword "ancient", limited to items available for immediate download, yields a findset of thirty-nine dissertations, mostly in Classics, Mediterranean Archaeology and Egyptology. Other keywords will get you equally interesting findsets, and the collection is growing.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Open Meeting 2009

The ASCSA has published a videocast and transcript of the March 13, 2009 Open Meeting of the School, presentated in Cotsen Hall on the campus in Kolonaki Athens.

The Director of the ASCSA, Jack Davis, summarized the accomplishments of the departments of the School and its sponsored and affiliated excavations, followed by Thomas Brogan, Director of the INSTAP Study Center in East Crete. Dr. Brogan discussed the tastes and smells of Minoan Crete, as revealed by recent excavations at three sites.

Jack Davis' presentation discussed Excavation and Survey projects at:
The Athenian Agora
Corinth
and the five projects which were affiliated with the School in 2008: a new survey at Plakias in the Rethymnon district of Crete; continuing excavations at Koutsoungila-Kechries in the Corinthia, at Mt. Lykaion in Arkadia, and at Mitrou in East Locris; and survey and architectural studies at Korphos in the Corinthia.
Shorter reports on publication, study for publication, and conservation at older excavations throughout Greece included: Isthmia Museum, Nemea, Samothrace, Gournia Survey, and the Azoria Project

Tom Brogan's presentation included discussion of Mochlos, Papadiokambos, and Chrissi Island.

Monday, March 23, 2009

The SBL's International Cooperation Initiative Program (ICI)

The Society of Biblical Literature has developed the International Cooperation Initiative Program (ICI) under which many of its publications are available on line free of charge...

...to scholars and students who would not otherwise have access to this scholarship. Persons who are identified through our technology as being from a country with a GDP per capita substantially lower than the average GDP per capita of the USA and the European Union will be able to see links below to PDF files. In addition, special rates for the Journal of Biblical Literature are available to institutions in these countries.


If you visit this page from one a domain identifiable as being in a qualifying country, you should be able to see links to all the available books. I would appreciate comment (see below) from those who are able to access these book. For those unable to see them, this is the currently list:

Online Books in the Program as of March 2009

Albertz, Rainer, Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E.Studies in Biblical Literature 3. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Albl, Martin C., trans. Pseudo-Gregory of Nyssa: Testimonies against the Jews. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 8. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Allen, James P., The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Writings from the Ancient World 23. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Arnold, Bill T. Who Were the Babylonians? Archaeology and Biblical Studies 10. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Attridge, Harold W. and James C. VanderKam, eds. Presidential Voices: The Society of Biblical Literature in the Twentieth Century. Biblical Scholarship in North America 22. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Bailey, Randall C., ed. Yet With a Steady Beat: Contemporary U. S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation. Semeia Studies 42. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Barr, David L., ed., Reading the Book of Revelation: A Resource for Students. Resourcesfor Biblical Study 44. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Barr, David L., ed. The Reality of Apocalypse: Rhetoric and Politics in the Book of Revelation. Symposium 39, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Bellis, Alice Ogden and Joel S. Kaminsky, ed.. Jews, Christians, and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures. Symposium Series 8. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.

Black, Fiona C., editor. The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture, and the Space Between. Semeia Studies 51. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Boda, Mark J., Daniel K. Falk, and Rodney A. Werline, eds. Seeking the Favor of God: Volume I, The Origins of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism. Early Judaism and Its Literature, 21. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Boda, Mark J., Daniel K. Falk, and Rodney A. Werline, eds. Seeking the Favor of God: Volume II, The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism. Early Judaism and Its Literature, 21. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Bodine, Walter. Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature: What it Is and What it Offers. Semeia Studies 27. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1995.

Boer, Roland, ed. Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies. Semeia Studies 63. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Borowski, Oded. Daily Life in Biblical Times. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 5. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Brant, Jo-Ann A., Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea, eds., Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative. Symposium 32. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Brooks, James A. The New Testament Text of Gregory of Nyssa. New Testament in the Greek Fathers 2. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 1991.

Cameron, Ron and Merrill P. Miller, eds. Redescribing Christian Origins. Symposium 28. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Clarke, Emma C., John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell, eds., Iamblichus: On the Mysteries. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 4. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Clifford, Richard J., ed. Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel. Symposium Series 36. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Cohen, Shaye J. D. The Jewish Family in Antiquity. Brown Judaic Studies 289. Atlanta, Scholars Press for Brown Judaic Studies, 1993.

Cook, Stephen L. The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism. Studies in Biblical Literature 8. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Cook, Stephen L. and Corrine L. Patton, eds., Ezekiel’s Hierarchical World: Wrestlingwith a Tiered Reality. Symposium 31. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Corley, Jeremy. Ben Sira’s Teaching on Friendship. Brown Judaic Studies 316. Providence, R.I., Brown University, 2002.

De Troyer, Kristin and Armin Lange, eds., Reading the Present in the Qumran Library: The Perception of the Contemporary by Means of Spiritual Interpretation. Symposium 30. Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

DeConick, April D. ed. Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism. Symposium 11. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

deSilva, David Arthur, Despising Shame: Honor Discourse and Community Maintenance in the Epistle to the Hebrews, Second Edition. Studies in Biblical Literature 21. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2008.

Dietrich, Walter, Joachim Vette, trans. The Early Monarchy in Israel: The Tenth Century B.C.E. Biblical Encyclopedia 3. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Dozeman, Thomas B. and Konrad Schmid, eds. A Farewell to the Yahwist?:The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. Symposium 34, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Draper, Jonathan A., ed., Orality and Colonialism in Southern Africa. Semeia Studies 46. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Draper, Jonathan A., Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity. Semeia Studies 47. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Ehrman, Bart D. Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels. New Testament in the Greek Fathers 1. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1986.

Ehrman, Bart D., Gordon D. Fee, Michael W. Holmes, eds. The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the Writings of Origen. New Testament in the Greek Fathers 3. Atlanta: Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1992.

Elledge, C. D. The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 14. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Finlan, Stephen. The Background and Content of Paul’s Cultic Atonement Metaphors. Academia Biblica 19. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Foster, John L. Hymns, Prayers, and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry. Writings from the Ancient World 8. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1996.

Gaines, Janet Howe, Forgiveness in a Wounded World: Jonah’s Dilemma. Studies in Biblical Literature 5. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Georgi, Dieter, The City in the Valley: Biblical Interpretation and Urban Theology. Studies in Biblical Literature 7. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Gentry, Peter John. The Asterisked Materials in the Greek Job. Septuagint and Cognate Studies 38. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 1995.

Glassner, Jean-Jacques. Mesopotamian Chronicles. Writings from the Ancient World 19. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Gordon, Cyrus H. A Scholar’s Odyssey. Biblical Scholarship in North America 20. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.

Grant, Jamie A. The King as Exemplar: The Function of Deuteronomy’s Kingship Law in the Shaping of the Book of Psalms. Academia Biblica 17. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Gray, Alyssa M. A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah. Brown Judaic Studies 342. Providence, Brown University, 2005.

Green, Barbara. Mikhail Bakhtin and Biblical Scholarship: An Introduction. Semeia Studies 38. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.

Greenstein, Edward L. Essays on Biblical Method and Translation. Brown Judaic Studies 92. Missoula, Mont, Scholars Press for Brown Judaic Studies, 1985.

Greer, Rowan A. and Margaret M. Mitchell, trans. The “Belly-Myther” of Endor: Interpretations of 1 Kingdoms 28 in the Early Church. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 16. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Havea, Jione. Elusions of Control: Biblical Law on the Words of Women. Semeia Studies 41. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Harrak, Amir, trans. The Acts of Ma˜r Ma˜ri ˜ the Apostle. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 11. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Harris, Robert A. Discerning Parallelism: A Study in Northern French Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis. Brown Judaic Studies 341. Providence, Brown Judaic Studies, 2005.

Hayes, Katherine M. “The Earth Mourns” Prophetic Metaphor and Oral Aesthetic. Academia Biblica 8. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Heil, John Paul, The Rhetorical Role of Scripture in 1 Corinthians. Studies in Biblical Literature 15. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Helmer, Christine, ed., with the assistance of Taylor G. Petrey. Biblical Interpretation: History, Context, and Reality. Symposium 26. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Herzer, Jens, translator. 4 Baruch (Paraleipomena Jeremiou). Writings from the Greco-Roman World 22. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005

Hill, Robert C. Translator, Diodore of Tarsus: Commentary on Psalms 1–51, with an Introduction and Notes by Robert C. Hill. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 9. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Hill, Robert C., trans. Theodoret of Cyrus: Commentary on Daniel. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 7. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Hock, Ronald F. and Edward N. O’Neil, translators and editors. The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 2. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Hoffner, Harry A., Jr. Hittite Myths: Second Edition. Writings from the Ancient World, 2. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 1998.

Hoffner, Harry A., Jr. Akkadian Grammar. Resources for Biblical Study 30. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1992.

Horsley, Richard A., ed. Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul. Semeia Studies 48. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Horsley, Richard A., ed Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q. Semeia Studies 60. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Hull, Michael F. Baptism on Account of the Dead (1 Cor 15:29): An Act of Faith in the Resurrection. Academia Biblica 22. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Hurtado, Larry W., ed. The Freer Biblical Manuscripst: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove. Text-Critical Studies 6. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Isser, Stanley. The Sword of Goliath: David in Heroic Literature. Studies in Biblical Literature, 6. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Jones, F. Stanley. An Ancient Jewish Christian Source on the History of Christianity: Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1. 27-71. Texts and Translations 37. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 1995.

Jones, F. Stanley, ed., Which Mary?: The Marys of Early Christian Tradition. Symposium 19. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Kaltner, John and Steven L. McKenzie, eds. Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. Resources for Biblical Study 42. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature 2002.

Kannaday, Wayne C., Apologetic Discourse and the Scribal Tradition: Evidence of the Influence of Apologetic Interests on the Text of the Canonical Gospels. Text-Critical Studies 5. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Kelle, Brad E. Hosea 2: Metaphor and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective. Academia Biblica, 20. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Kennedy, George A., Invention and Method: Two Rhetorical Treatises from the Hermogenic Corpus. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 15. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Kennedy, George A. Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 10. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Kinlaw, Pamela E. The Christ Is Jesus: Metamorphosis, Possession, and Johannine Christology. Academia Biblica 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Kirk, Alan and Tom Thatcher, eds. Memory, Tradition, and Text: Uses of the Past in Early Christianity. Semeia Studies 52. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A., ed. Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible. Semeia Studies 44. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Knight, Douglas A. Rediscovering the Traditions of Israel, Third Edition. Studies in Biblical Literature 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Knowles, Melody D. Centrality Practiced: Jerusalem in the Religious Practice of Yehud and the Diaspora in the Persian Period. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Konstan, David, Clay Diskin, Clarence E. Glad, Johan C. Thom, and James Ware, trans., Philodemus: On Frank Criticism. Texts and Translations 43. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1998.

Kraus, Wolfgang and R. Glenn Wooden, eds. Septuagint Research: Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures. Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 53. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Kulik, Alexander. Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Toward the Original of the Apocalypse of Abraham. Text-Critical Studies 3. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Landes, George M., Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary: Learning Words by Frequency and Cognate. Resources for Biblical Study 41. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Lasine, Stuart. Knowing Kings: Knowledge, Power, and Narcissism in the Hebrew Bible. Semeia Studies 40. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Lindenberger,, James M., Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters, Second Edition. Writings from the Ancient World 14. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Louw, J. P. Semantics of New Testament Greek. Semeia Studies 11. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1982.

Lozada Jr., Francisco. and Tom Thatcher, eds. New Currents through John: A Global Perspective. Resources for Biblical Study 54. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Louw, Johannes P. and Eugene A. Nida. Lexical Semantics of the Greek New Testament. Resources for Biblical Study 25. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1992.

Maclean, Jennifer K. Berenson and Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, trans. Flavius Philostratus: Heroikos. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 1. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Maclean, Jennifer K. Berenson and Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, translators and editors, Flavius Philostratus: On Heroes. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 3. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Marchal, Joseph A. Hierarchy, Unity, and Imitation: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Power Dynamics in Paul's Letter to the Philippians. Academia Biblica 24. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

McGinnis, Claire Mathews and Patricia K. Tull, editors. “As Those Who Are Taught”: The Interpretation of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL. Symposium 27. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Miller, Patrick D., Jr., The Divine Warrior in Early Israel. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006 (Originally published by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1973).

Miller, Patrick and J. J. M. Roberts. The Hand of the Lord: A Reassessment of the "Ark Narrative" of 1 Samuel. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2008. (Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977).

Moore, Stephen D. and Janice Capel Anderson, eds., New Testament Masculinities. Semeia Studies 45. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Moreland, Milton C., Between Text and Artifact: Integrating Archaeology in Biblical Studies Teaching. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 8. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Murnane, William J. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt. Writings from the Ancient World 5. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1995.

Mykytiuk, Lawrence J., Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic. Academia Biblica 12. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Nissinen, Martti, ed. Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives. Symposium Series 13. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.

Nissinen, Martti, Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. Writings from the Ancient World 12. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Nogalski . James D. and Marvin A. Sweeney, editors. Reading and Hearing the Book of the Twelve. Symposium Series 15. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.

Osburn, Carroll D. The Text of the Apostolos in Epiphanius of Salamis. New Testament in the Greek Fathers 6. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Parker, Simon. ed. Ugaritic Narrative Poetry. Writings from the Ancient World 9. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 1997.

Pardee, Dennis. Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. Writings from the Ancient World 10. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Penner, Todd and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds., Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse. Symposium 20. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Person, Raymond F., Jr. The Deuteronomic School: History, Social Setting, and Literature. Studies in Biblical Literature 2. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Peters, Melvin K. H., ed. XII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Leiden, 2004. Septuagint and Cognate Studies 54. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Petersen, David L. Late Israelite Prophecy: Studies in Deutero-Prophetic Literature and in Chronicles. Monograph 23. Missoula, Mont., Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1977.

Racine, Jean-François, The Text of Matthew in the Writings of Basil of Caesarea. New Testament in the Greek Fathers 5. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Reeves, John C., ed., Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality. Symposium Series 24. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature 2003.

Reymond, Eric D. Innovations in Hebrew Poetry: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach. Studies in Biblical Literature 9. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature 2004.

Roncace, Mark and Patrick Gray, eds., Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction. Resources for Biblical Study 49. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Reeves, John C., Trajectories in Near Eastern Apocalyptic: A Postrabbinic Jewish Apocalypse Reader. Resources for Biblical Study 45. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Roth, Martha T. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor: Second Edition. Writings from the Ancient World 6. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1997.

Runia, David T. and Gregory E. Sterling, eds. The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Volume XVIII (2006). Studia Philonica Annual 18. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Runia, David T. and Gregory E. Sterling, eds. The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Volume XIX (2007). Studia Philonica Annual 19. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Russell, Donald A. and David Konstan, eds. & trans., Heraclitus: Homeric Problems. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 14. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Schenker, Adrian, ed. The Earliest Text of the Hebrew Bible: The Relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of the Septuagint Reconsidere. Septuagint and Cognate Studies 52. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Segovia, Fernando F., editor. “What is John?”: Volume I, Readers and Readings of the Fourth Gospel. Symposium 3. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.

Shipp, R. Mark, Of Dead Kings and Dirges: Myth and Meaning in Isaiah 14:4b–21. Academia Biblica 11. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Singer, Itamar, Hittite Prayers. Writings from the Ancient World. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Sinkoff, Nancy. Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands. Brown Judaic Studies 336. Providence, R.I., Brown University 2004.

Smith, James A. Marks of an Apostle: Deconstruction, Philippians, and Problematizing Pauline Theology. Semeia Studies 53. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Smith, Mark S. The Rituals and Myths of the Feast of the Goodly Gods of KTU/CAT 1.23: Royal Constructions of Opposition, Intersection, Integration, and Domination. Resources for Biblical Study 51. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Smith, Richard, A Concise Coptic-English Lexicon: Second Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 35. Atlanta. Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.

Starbuck, Scott R. A. Court Oracles in the Psalms: The So-Called Royal Psalms in their Ancient Near Eastern Context. Dissertation Series 172. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.

Steck, Odil Hannes, translated by James D. Nogalski. Old Testament Exegesis: A Guide to the Methodology, Second Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 39. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 1998.

Stern, Elsie R. From Rebuke to Consolation: Exegesis and Theology in the Liturgical Anthology of the Ninth of Av Season. Brown Judaic Studies 338. Providence, Brown University, 2005.

Strudwick, Nigel C. Texts from the Pyramid Age. Writings from the Ancient World 16. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Talshir, Zipora. I Esdra: From Origin to Translation. Septuagint and Cognate Studies 47. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.

Tauberschmidt, Gerhard. Secondary Parallelism: A Study of Translation Technique in LXX Proverbs. Academia Biblica 15. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Torrey, Charles C. The Lives of the Prophets: Greek Text and Translation. Monograph Series 1. Philadelphia, Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1946. (Reprinted by the Society of Biblical Literature 2006).

Turner, John D. and Ruth Majercik, eds. Gnosticism and Later Platonism: Themes, Figures, and Texts. Symposium 12. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Udoh, Fabian E. To Caesar What Is Caesar’s: Tribute, Taxes, and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine (63 B.C.E.–70 C.E.). Brown Judaic Studies 343. Providence, Brown Judaic Studies, 2006.

Ukpong, Justin S. et al. eds. Reading the Bible in the Global Village: Cape Town. Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 8. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Van Voorst, Robert E., Building Your New Testament Greek Vocabulary, Third Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 43. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

Vander Stichele, Caroline and Todd Penner, eds. Her Master’s Tools? Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse. Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 9. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Vanstiphout, Herman. Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta. Writings from the Ancient World 20. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Vaughn, Andrew G. Theology, History, and Archaeology in the Chronicler’s Account of Hezekiah. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 4. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1999.

Verner, David C. The Household of God: The Social World of the Pastoral Epistles. Dissertation Series 71. Chico, CA, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1983.

Walker-Jones, Arthur, Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation, Resources for Biblical Study 48. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Wassen, Cecilia, Women in the Damascus Document. Academia Biblica 21. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Watson, Duane F., ed. The Intertexture of Apocalyptic Discourse in the New Testament. Symposium Series 14. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.

Watts, James W., ed. Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial Authorization of the Pentateuch. Symposium Series 17. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2001.

West, Gerald O. Reading Other-Wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities. Semeia Studies 62. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Wright, Benjamin G. III and Lawrence M. Wills, eds. Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism. Symposium 35. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Yeivin, Israel. Introduction to the Tiberian Masorah. Masoretic Studies 5. Atlanta, Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1985.

Zevit, Ziony, The Anterior Construction in Classical Hebrew. Monograph 50. Atlanta, Scholars Press on behalf of the Society of Biblical Literature, 1998.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

One off Journal Issues: French archaeology abroad

Occasionally issues of journals where one might not normally think to look produce thematic issues of interest. Availablity online makes them much more discoverable. A case in point:

Numéro 5 // novembre 2001
of La revue pour l’histoire du CNRS is a special issue entitled Des laboratoires à l'étranger. Its contents include an interesting set of articles on French archaeological missions:

Girolamo Ramunni
Introduction

Ève Gran-Aymerich
L’archéologie française à l’étranger
Méditerranée, Afrique et Proche-Orient (1945-1970). Vers un nouvel équilibre

Catherine Nicault
Le CNRS dans l’« Orient compliqué »
Le Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem

Nicolas Grimal
La mission permanente de Karnak

Other one off journals in AWOL are here, here, here, here, here, here

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) web site survey

Dear CDLI Contributors and Users:

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) began working with the UCLA Library in 2007 to ensure long-term digital storage and preservation of and enhanced access to digital content offered through the CDLI Web site (http://cdli.ucla.edu/). This collaboration has been supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

As part of the effort to enhance access to this digital collection, the UCLA Library would like to better understand the current strengths and weaknesses of the CDLI Web site, as well as learn more about the audience of the CDLI content. Please assist us by completing a short survey available at http://tinyurl.com/bzfhjc. The survey is 10 short questions and takes approximately 10-15 minutes.

We appreciate your help as we work to improve the CDLI Web site. If you have any comments, questions or concerns, please contact UCLA Librarian Sharon Shafer at sshafer [at] library.ucla.edu.

Best regards,

Elizabeth McAulay and Sharon Shafer
UCLA Library

Monday, March 2, 2009

Serving the Word & The Sources of Biblical Narrative

After a hiatus of nearly four years, one of my old favorite blogs, Serving the Word: The Hebrew Bible and related matters ancient and modern, through the lenses of philology, anthropological linguistics and political theology, has come back to life. In a posting this morning, "The first source-critical Bible goes online", Seth Sanders discusses Tzemah Yoreh's new open access project
The Sources of Biblical Narrative:
This could be a watershed in the history of Bible criticism: the first online source-critical presentation of the Hebrew Bible, through II Samuel 5, went up this weekend.