Το τρέχον τεύχος του Vetus Testamentum / The current issue of Vetus Testamentum

Vetus Testamentum 71/4-5 (2021)

• Felix Albrecht, "Die Handelsgüter der Tarsis-Schiffe (1Kön 10,22): Ein Vergleich zwischen Masoretischem Text und Septuaginta," 473–480 (abstract)
• David J. A. Clines, "Alleged Basic Meanings of the Hebrew Verb qdš “Be Holy”: An Exercise in Comparative Hebrew Lexicography," 481–502 (abstract)
• Heath D. Dewrell, "Depictions of Egypt in the Book of Hosea and Their Implications for Dating the Book," 503–530 (abstract)
• Ya’akov Dolgopolsky-Geva, "Jerusalem before the Reform: Memory, Nostalgia, and Antiquarian Interest in 2 Kings 23:7–13," 531–550 (abstract)
• Raanan Eichler, "Solomon’s Throne in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context," 551–565 (abstract)
• Gershon Galil, "The Formation of Judges and Samuel and the Deuteronomistic Composition," 566–590 (abstract) 
• Naama Golan - Shai Gordin, "Can God Deliver His Servants? Two Theological Problems in the Daniel Narratives (Dan 1:9; 3:17–18)," 591–606 (abstract)
• Ekaterina E. Kozlova, "'Dressed as a Harlot and Cunning of Heart'? A New Look at the Heart of the Strange Woman in the Book of Proverbs," 607–618 (abstract)
• Joachim J. Krause, "lārešet ʾet hāʾāreṣ—'To Possess the Land, to Enjoy Possession of the Land': A Lexicographic Proposal and Its Theological Ramifications," 619–630 (abstract)
• Orit Malka, "On the Meaning of הֵעִיד in Biblical Hebrew: Between Summoning Witnesses and Imposing Oaths," 631–652 (abstract)
• Nadav Naʾaman, "Dating the Renaming of Cities Referred to in the Biblical Conquest and Settlement Accounts," 653–664 (abstract)
• Jonathan Nathan, "The Meaning and Syntax of taʿărōg," 665–672 
• Gary A. Rendsburg, "Genesis 49:4—The Route of Facile Textual Emendation vs. Appreciation for Literary Brilliance," 673–686 (abstract)
• Joseph Scales, "Preparing for Military Action: Judith’s Purificatory Washing in Judith 12:7," 687–703
• Kyu Seop Kim, "Διαθήκη in Ptolemaic Documentary Papyri and LXX Genesis," 704–717 (abstract)
• Richard C. Steiner, "דימון (Isa 15:9) and להמנות (Qoh 1:15): On Dialectal Wordplay and Nasal Spreading in the Bible," 718–742 (abstract)
• Jonathan Thambyrajah, "A Macedonian in the Persian Court: Addition E of Esther and the Vetus Latina," 743–750 (abstract)
• Frank Ueberschaer, "Ich und mein König: Ps 45 als Ausdruck israelitischer Herrschaftsideologie und schreiberlichen Selbstbewusstseins," 751–783 (abstract)
• Ellen J. van Wolde, "Not the Name Alone: A Linguistic Study of Exodus 3:14–15," 784–800 

Short Notes

• Michel Masson, "A propos de la racine להם dans Proverbes 18:8," 801–805 (abstract)

Open Access: Εγγύς Ανατολή και αντισημιτισμός / Open Access: Near East Studies and Antisemetism

Heike Behlmer, Thomas L. Gertzen, Orell Witthuhn, Der Nachlass Paul de Lagarde: Orientalistische Netzwerke und antisemitische Verflechtungen.  Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge 46. Berlin: de Gruyter 2020 

ISBN: 9783110615463 

Το τρέχον τεύχος του Neotestamentica / The current issue of Neotestamentica

 Neotestamentica 55/1 (2021)

• Scott Lewis Adams, "The Rhetorical Function of Petitionary Prayer in Revelation," 1-22 (abstract)
• Sanrie M. de Beer, Pierre J. Jordaan, "Heeding the Voices of Ὀρφανοί καὶ Xῆραι (Fatherless Households) in James 1:27: Utilising the Greimassian Semiotic Square," 23-42 (abstract)
• Paul B. Decock, "'This Book': The Rhetoric of John's Apocalypse," 43-63 (abstract)
• Friedrich W. de Wet, Adriaan Lamprecht, "The Aorist Indicative's Prior to Past Usage: A Mental Space Theory Analysis," 65-88 (abstract)
• David L. Eastman, "The Pauline Teachings of Peter in the Apocryphal Acts," 89-109 (abstract)
• Mookgo S. Kgatle, "Healing Practices in the Epistle of James Applied to New Prophetic Churches in South Africa," 111-123 (abstract)
• Prince Emma Peters, "Brauchbarkeit of the Q Hypothesis in Modern Source-Critical Studies," 125-137 (abstract)
• Stephen Rockwell, "Who are the Lowly, Weak and Despised? A Re-evaluation of 1 Corinthians 1:26–31," 139-153 (abstract)
• Cornelia van Deventer, "The Mosaic of Belief in the Fourth Gospel," 155-170 (abstract)
• Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh, "Social-Scientific Interpretation of the Parables of Jesus in Luke: A Review of Some Works of Ernest van Eck," 171-191 (abstract)

Ένα νέο άρθρο στο τρέχον τεύχος του HTS / A new article in the current issue of HTS

 Hervormde Teologiese Studies 77/4 (2021)

Doniwen Pietersen, "Yahwistic incongruency and enigma: A challenge to relinquish violence?"

Το τρέχον τεύχος του JSOT / The current issue of JSOT

 Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 46/1 (2021)

• Yisca Zimran, "The Prevalence and Purpose of the ‘Assyria-Egypt’ Motif in the Book of Hosea," 3–23 (abstract)
• Adam D. Hensley, "David, Once and Future King? A Closer Look at the Postscript of Psalm 72.20," 24–43 (abstract)
• Jonathan A. Thambyrajah, "Israelite or Moabite? Ethnicity in the book of Ruth," 44–63 (abstract)
• Kristin J. Wendland, "Naming Jerusalem: Poetry and the Identity of the Personified City in Lamentations 1-2," 64–78 (abstract)
• Steven T. Mann, "Let There Be Cain: A Clash of Imaginations in Genesis 4," 79–95 (abstract)
• John Burnight, "Is Eliphaz a false prophet? The vision in Job 4.12-21," 96–116 (abstract)
• Benjamin M Austin, "The ironic syllogism: A rhetorical use of unmarked questions," 117–132 (abstract)
• Rev Dr Simon P. Stocks, "‘Like the snail that dissolves’: Construction of Identity of Psalmist and Enemy in the Lament Psalms of the Individual," 133–143 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του JSHJ / The current issue of JSHJ

 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 19/3 (2021)

• James Crossley, "The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus," 261–264 
• Richard A. Horsley, "Can Study of the Historical Jesus Escape its Typographical Captivity?" 265–329 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του JJS / In the current issue of JJS

 Journal of Jewish Studies 72/2 (2021)

• Jean-Sébastien Rey, "The relationship between manuscripts A, B, D and the marginal readings of manuscript B of Ben Sira," 240-256 (abstract)
• Moshe Simon-Shoshan, "You can't go home again: the Bavlia's story of Honia's big sleep as inversion of the Yerushalmia's account," 257-282 (abstract)

Η ιστορία του Nimrod / Nimrod's story

 Στην ιστοσελίδα TheTorah.com η Carol Bakhos (UCLA) παρουσιάζει την ιστορία του βασιλιά Nimrod, όπως την αφηγείται η Βίβλος κι η μετέπειτα ιουδαϊκές, χριστιανικές και ισλαμικές πηγές:

Nimrod: The Making of a Nemesis

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

 Dead Sea Discoveries 28/3 (2021)

Special Issue: Formation of the Subject—Essays in Honor of Carol Newsom’s 70th Birthday

• Arjen Bakker, Jutta Jokiranta, Hindy Najman, "Formation of the Subject—Essays in Honor of Carol Newsom’s 70th Birthday," 275–282 
• Carol A. Newsom, "Genesis 1–3 and the Formation of Subjectivity in the Hodayot and the Two Spirits Teaching," 283–298 (abstract)
• Friedhelm Hartenstein, "'May My Musings Please Him' (Psalm 104:34):  On the Transformation of Inner Self-Awareness in Wisdom Psalms," 299–340 (abstract)
• Ishay Rosen-Zvi, "The Rhetorical Self in Tannaitic Halakha," 341–366 (abstract)
• Phillip M. Lasater, "The Heart of Self Formation: The Overlap of Moral Selfhood and Legalities in Ancient Scriptural Discourse," 367–395 
• Ingrid E. Lilly, "The Corporeality of the Self:  The Example of Bitter Nefeš as an Ethnomedical Syndrome," 396–422 (abstract)
• David Lambert, "Biblical Narrative as Ethics? The Limits of Exemplarity in Ancient Jewish Literature," 423–447 (abstract)

Η δουλεία στην αρχαία Εγγύς Ανατολή / Slavery in ancient Near East

Στην ιστοσελίδα ANE Today οι Ella Karev (University of Chicago) και Seth Richardson (Journal of Near Eastern Studies) παραθέτουν μία σειρά από ενδιαφέροντα δεδομένα για τη δουλεία στην αρχαία Εγγύς Ανατολή και την συγκρίνουν με ανάλογα φαινόμενα σε νεότερες εποχές:

Rethinking Slavery in the Ancient Near East