Open Access (limited time) Issue of NEA examining the hypothesis that a Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus’ family

Announced yesterday on the ASOR Blog

ASOR is pleased to announce that it has made an issue of Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA 69:3/4 [2006]) available for free on JSTOR for the next month. This issue of NEA contains articles by leading scholars that examine the hypothesis that a Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus’ family. The issue contains articles by Eric M. Meyers, Shimon Gibson, Sandra Scham, Christopher Rollston, and Stephen J. Pfann. The issue also contains an extensive response by James D. Tabor.

The following is a table of contents with links to the individual articles:

• “The Jesus Tomb Controversy: An Overview” by Eric M. Meyers
• “Is the Talpiot Tomb Really the Family Tomb of Jesus?” by Shimon Gibson
• “Trial by Statistics” by Sandra Scham
• “Inscribed Ossuaries: Personal Names, Statistics, and Laboratory Test” by Christopher Rollston
• “Mary Magdalene Has Left the Room: A Suggested New Reading of Ossuary CJO 701″ by Stephen J. Pfann
• “Testing a Hypothesis” by James D. Tabor

Those interested in ASOR’s journals (BASOR, JCS, and NEA) can found all of these journals online on JSTOR. Individual and institutional subscriptions are available. Also, professional memberships in ASOR are available that give individuals online access to all of ASOR’s journals from the present all the way back to 1920. Please e-mail asormemb@bu.edu for more information.

I note that this issue appears in this form as a part of a larger conversation surrounding recent announcements of James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici.  Much (though certainly not all) of this conversation appeared in a series of essays on the ASOR Blog, as well as in comments made in response to those essays.  I urge those of you who are interested in either the subject matter at hand, or the use of social media to to document a heated controversy in public, to scan through the traffic presented here.

Emar Bibliography

Emar Online Database

Yoram Cohen, Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Dietrich Sürenhagen (January 2008)

The Emar Online Database includes references to the texts from Emar and its vicinity found in the scholarly literature up to 2003, following the Emar bibliography by Betina I. Faist, Josué-Javier Justel, and Juan-Pablo Vita. The texts included in our database were those dug by the French excavations at Tell Meskene during the early 70s, as well as those coming from illegal diggings on the site, which made their way to the antiquity market and were eventually bought by private collectors and institutions.

 The database includes more than 12,000 records, which were collected for over a period of two and a half years by Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Tankred Kauf, Stephan Kämmer and Luts Kühne at the University of Konstanz (contributions by authors beginning with A-L), and by Yoram Cohen and Shimrit Salem of Tel Aviv University (contributions by authors beginning with M-Z). The whole datebase filling took place in Konstanz. The database was programmed by Jürgen Glocker, (University of Konstanz), while the internet configuration has been conceived by Francesco di Filippo (University of Napoli "l'Orientale"). Adaption to the Hethitologieportal by Gerfrid G.W. Müller.

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Administrative Note

AWOL Statistics

As of today, the number of email addresses subscribed to AWOL's feedburner email notification service is 3,920.  The subscriber list increases by more than one hundred each month.

You may follow AWOL directly via RSS, via Feedburner, on Facebook,  or on Twitter @ISAWLibrary.  Experimentally you can also follow AWOL on Google+.

AWOL' s Alphabetical list of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies currently includes 1114 titles. We reached the 1000 title benchmark at the end of September 2011.

AWOL went on line  January 6, 2009, and I have posted 1835 entries all told.  Since then we have had 622,921 page loads, from 386,385 unique visitors. Of these 107,044 found AWOL useful enough to come back for more.

The following graph charts the growth of traffic on AWOL over its lifetime:



Since May 2010, Blogger has been keeping detailed statistics on usage of files hosted there. In that period the ten most frequently viewed AWOL pages have been:

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancie...

The Ancient World in JSTOR

Migne online

The Oriental Institute Open Access Publications

ISAW Papers 4 (Preprint, 2/2012): The Cosmos in th...

CORONA Atlas of the Middle East

Open Access Publications: Giza Occasional Papers

LSJ at TLG

Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization

Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Resources Online

For those who might be interested, I invite you to amuse yourself by browsing through Bookplates of Scholars in Ancient Studies. If any of you have additions, corrections or comments on that, please do get in touch with me.

Administrative notes with user statistics have been posted in March 2012, November 2011, October 2011,  July 2011, April 2011, January 2011,  December 2010,  October 2010, August 2010,  July 2010, May 2010, and  January 2010.

Open Access Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature

 Section C of the Proceedings publishes original research papers primarily in the fields of archaeology and history, although submissions in Celtic studies, linguistics and literature will also be considered. Papers should focus on Ireland or have a strong Irish relevance; submissions without an obvious Irish relevance may be considered at the editors’ discretion, and authors should approach the editors before making such submissions. Scholarly editions of short historical documents of Irish origin or interest are also published.

 Please click on a link below to view a paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C in the last three years.

2012

112C

2011

111C - Thematic volume (Domestic Life in Ireland)

2010

110C

2009

109C

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Open Access Journal: Mediaevalia – електронно списание за средновековна, история и изкуство

Mediaevalia – електронно списание за средновековна, история и изкуство

ISSN : 1314-275

La revue est éditée par la Faculté d’Histoire de l’Université Saint-Clément d’Ohrid de Sofia en Bulgarie. Elle est orientée principalement sur l’étude de l’ Europe médiévale et publiera études, commentaires et traductions de textes médiévaux. 

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	Брой 1		Специално издание Сборник в памет на Доц. д-р Георги Сотиров
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One Off Journal Issues: Critical Perspectives on Historical Collapse Special Feature

Critical Perspectives on Historical Collapse Special Feature.  From PNAS 2012 109 (10)

Introduction

• Karl W. Butzer and Georgina H. Endfield

  Critical perspectives on historical collapse

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3628-3631; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114772109

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Perspective

• Karl W. Butzer

  Inaugural Article: From the Cover: Collapse, environment, and society

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3632-3639; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114845109

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Research Articles

• Arlene M. Rosen and Isabel Rivera-Collazo

  Climate change, adaptive cycles, and the persistence of foraging economies during the late Pleistocene/Holocene transition in the Levant

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3640-3645; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1113931109

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• Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Timothy P. Beach, and Nicholas P. Dunning

  Wetland fields as mirrors of drought and the Maya abandonment

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3646-3651; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114919109

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• Nicholas P. Dunning, Timothy P. Beach, and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach

  Kax and kol: Collapse and resilience in lowland Maya civilization

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3652-3657; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114838109

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• Andrew J. Dugmore, Thomas H. McGovern, Orri Vésteinsson, Jette Arneborg, Richard Streeter, and Christian Keller

  Cultural adaptation, compounding vulnerabilities and conjunctures in Norse Greenland

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3658-3663; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1115292109

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• Richard Streeter, Andrew J. Dugmore, and Orri Vésteinsson

  Plague and landscape resilience in premodern Iceland

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3664-3669; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1113937109

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• Sarah E. Harris

  Cyprus as a degraded landscape or resilient environment in the wake of colonial intrusion

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3670-3675; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114085109

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•  Georgina H. Endfield

  The resilience and adaptive capacity of social-environmental systems in colonial Mexico

  PNAS 2012 109 (10) 3676-3681; published ahead of print February 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1114831109

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

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Barrington Atlas Bibliography Online

Barrington Atlas Bibliography

The complete bibliography is now online. 

 

We've finished extracting, normalizing, and formatting every reference that Pleiades derives from the Barrington Atlas. They are now online, all 5403 of them, partitioned according to the first letter of the primary author's last name (or ascii conversion thereof; S.P. Ó’Ríordáin and T. Özoralis are filed under "O") in pages such as http://atlantides.org/bibliography/a.html. 

The little Pleiades icon following every reference label is a link back to Pleiades content citing that reference. For example, the reference

AAA — S. Gsell, Atlas archéologique de l'Algérie, Algiers and Paris, 1911.

has a link to http://pleiades.stoa.org/search?Cites=AAA. Work is scheduled to better integrate the bibliographic resources with Pleiades content, so that the AAA citation at http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/334659/vatari/ links directly to http://atlantides.org/bibliography/a.html#AAA instead of http://atlantides.org/bibliography/.

The code and data used to generate the web pages are available on GitHub: http://github.com/isawnyu/babibl-web. The babibl-web project uses the Python unidecode module to transliterate names and Jinga2 as HTML template engine. The bibl.csv file contains items extracted from HTML using Beautiful Soup and then normalized and cleaned using Google Refine.

Name index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Pleiades: A community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places