Open Access Monographs from SBL Press

SBL Press publishes two open access book series: Ancient Near East Monographs (ANEM) and International Voices in Biblical Studies (IVBS). You can access them using the links below

International Voices in Biblical Studies here.
Ancient Near East Monographs here

SBL Seminar Papers

The Society of Biblical Literature recently made the following statement.

 

Each November from 1971 through 2003 the Society of Biblical Literature published a collection of papers that would be presented in the sessions (or seminars) at that year’s Annual Meeting: the SBL Seminar Papers. The contents of the collection were determined not by theme or topic but by which papers were submitted to SBL early enough to be assembled into a volume and printed for distribution at the Annual Meeting.

Over the thirty-three years of the Seminar Papers’ existence, SBL published forty-one physical volumes (two volumes each for 1971–1975, 1978–1979, and 1998) containing 1,126 papers that filled 19,849 pages. Although the Seminar Papers explicitly identified their contents as “working documents,” “experimental and initial work on a subject,” many continue to be cited in scholarly work today—that is, when one can locate a library that owns them.

Now, nearly twenty years after the last volume was published, SBL is happy to announce that all 1,126 papers have been digitized and are openly available for anyone to read online or download. All forty-one volumes can be accessed here as a part of the Pitts Theology Library Digital Collections.

BiblePlaces Resources at SBL

If you are looking for an outstanding collection of Holy Land photos and if you are headed to SBL you will want to stop by the BiblePlaces exhibit, #411. They will have major discounts on the collections, plus a free volume of choice to anyone who stops by.

Ancient Near Eastern Monographs

I am not sure when this became available, but all of the Society of Biblical Literature's Ancient Near Eastern Monographs are available as free pdfs. You can see what is available here or click the individual links below.

Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Edited by Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Stökl
 
Deuteronomy-Kings as Emerging Authoritative Books: A Conversation
by Diana V. Edelman (Editor)

The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel
by Israel Finkelstein

Constructs of Prophecy in the Former and Latter Prophets and Other Texts
Edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Martti Nissinen

Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction
Alan Lenzi

El Intercambio de Bienes entre Egipto y Asia Anterior: Desde el reinado de Tuthmosis III hasta el de Akhenaton
Graciela Gestoso Singer

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

New SBL Research Website

The Society of Biblical Literature has launched a web page providing resources for text-critical research, writing, and collaboration. SBL members who log in will find the reading text (the upper text without critical apparatus) of four GBS editions available in several file formats, including downloadable PDFs and texts viewable via a GBS online platform:

• Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 5th revised edition
• Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs, 2nd revised edition
• Biblical Sacra luxta Vulgatam Versionem, 5th revised edition
• UBS Greek New Testament, 4th revised edition

This web page also includes links to the SBL Fonts and the SBL Greek New Testament.

You can access the website here. 

SBL Job Report

The Society of Biblical Literature has released its "second Jobs Report, tracking employment listing data in biblical, religious, and theological studies from 2011 through 2012. This report, which you can view and download from this link, adds to the report released in November 2012 on data from 2001 through 2010."

2013 SBL Preliminary Program Book

  
You can access a preliminary version of the program book for the Society of Biblical Literature's 2013 annual meeting to be held in Baltimore here. You can do specific searches or leave all the fields blank and click the search button.
  

"SBL in October" Sale

  

Some readers might be interested in Eisenbraun's "SBL in October" sale. Even if you are going to the Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Atlanta in November, you might want to consider taking advantage of this offer. Not only do you get the convention prices, but there are two additional advantages. You won't need pay Atlanta's sales tax and you won't have to worry about how you are getting the books home (especially with airlines and their bag limits and fees). There is also free shipping for orders over $99.00. But the sale is only until October 18. Here is a link to the sale. 

  

Historical Criticism

See Derek Leman's discussion on Saturday's session of papers at the Society of Biblical Literature on “What is Historical Criticism?”

New Testament Theology at SBL

There was apparently an interesting panel discussion Sunday night at SBL between James Dunn, Frank Matera, D. A. Carson, and Udo Schnelle on Schnelle's just published New Testament Theology. I had wanted to attend and I purchased the volume, but my travel plans did not allow it. But here are two different blog postings on the discussion for those who were and were not able to attend here and here. Anyone record it?

SBL Papers

Michael Halcomb has posted a zip file containing many of the SBL papers that are available for this years national meeting. Check it out here.

For All Presenters at ETS/SBL

Nijay Gupta has some sage advice for presenters at professional conferences such as the Evangelical Theological Society and Society of Biblical Literature. You can read it here.

SBL Papers Online

The Paul and Scripture blog has links to some of this year's SBL papers related to the Pauline Corpus. See it here.

HT: Nijay Gupta

Search Full Text of All SBL Books

Mark Hoffman has brought attention to a way to scan all SBL published (currently?) books. Although I have not tried it out yet, this could be a helpful tool. Read his post here for details.