Open Access Journal: JANES - Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society

[First posted in AWOL 23 October 2009. Updated 13 May 2023]

JANES - Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
ISSN: 0010-2016

JANES, the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, was founded in 1968 at Columbia University, and has been housed at the Jewish Theological Seminary since 1982. Over these approximately forty years 30 volumes have been published under the editorship of former JTS professor Ed Greenstein and JTS professor David Marcus. The volumes include approximately three hundred and fifty articles written by over two hundred scholars and students from all over the world. The impressive array of scholars that have contributed articles to these volumes includes well-known names such as G. R. Driver, H. L. Ginsberg, Jonas Greenfield, William Hallo, Thorkild Jacobsen, Jacob Milgrom, A. L. Oppenheim, to mention but a few. Over the years there have been five special issues celebrating JTS and Columbia scholars Elias Bickerman, Meir Bravmann, Theodor Gaster, Moshe Held, and Yochanan Muffs. Articles have been written on all aspects of the Bible and Ancient Near East covering areas such as art history, archaeology, anthropology, language, linguistics, philology, and religion. There are articles on Assyriology, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hittite, and all areas of Hebrew and Aramaic and on almost every book of the Bible. Manuscripts should be composed according to the SBL style sheet and sent to the Editors, c/o Ed Greenstein (greenstein.ed@gmail.com)

Vol. 36, Issue 1, 2023

 

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  JANES Volume 36 Frontmatter

  JANES Editorial Board

  JANES Table of Contents
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  Rules of Disfigurement: 1 Samuel 5:1-5’s Dagon Idol Paradigm of Decapitated Heads and Amputated Hands for Israel’s Archaeological Iconoclasms

  James Seth Adcock

  Destruction of divine and human statues is known universally from the ancient Near East in historical and archaeological testimony.
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  On Hieratic and the Direction of Alphabetic Writing

  F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp

  Epigraphers have appreciated that one of the distinguishing features of the developed linear alphabetic scripts of the first millennium Levant is unidirectional writing from right to left in horizontal lines.
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  The Gezer Calendar, Rahab, and Agricultural Reality in Ancient Israel

  Raanan Eichler

  Biblical and inscriptional Hebrew can illuminate each other.
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  The Altar at Tel Dothan – A Trace of Josiah’s Reform?

  Yoel Elitzur

  The name Dothan (דֹתָן, דֹּתָיְנָה, Δωθαιμ) has remained preserved in its original location to this day.
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  Ezra the Scribe-Priest against the Backdrop of Babylonian Temple Officials

  Tova Ganzel

  The Temple functionaries described in Ezra-Nehemiah appear to hold roles that diverge in some ways from officials in the First Temple.
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  The Neglected Numbers of Judges 17—18

  CJ Gossage

  Over the last half-century myriad literary readings of the Hebrew Bible have been published
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  The Story of Dinah (Gen 34) – A Reading in Light of Babylonian Marriage Agreements from the First Millenium BCE

  Lea Jacobsen

  Genesis 34 – known to commentators as “the story of Dinah” – recounts the harsh circumstances of the encounter between the Jacobites

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