Wednesday, January 15, 2025

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

[First posted in AWOL 23 October 2009. Updated 15 January 2025]

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. 37, Issue 1, 2024
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    JANES Volume 37 Frontmatter
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    Speaking with Names: Reading the Geographical and Cultural Landscape of Shechem in Judges 8:30-9:57
    Amy L. Balogh
    “Geographical landscapes are never culturally vacant.” 1 When a person has knowledge of a place, directly or indirectly, that place becomes part of their experience...
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    Spitting as Determining Sociopolitical Hierarchy in the Ancient Near East and an Enigmatic Legal Custom in the Miriam Narrative (Num 12:14)
    Joseph FleishmanYuval Darabi
    Numbers 12 tells of the complaint made by Miriam and Aaron against “the Cushite woman he [i.e., Moses] had married” and against Moses’ exceptional prophetic status. The complaint meets...
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    Clan Names of Returnees to Judah in Ezra2//Nehemiah 7: An Analysis of the Onomastic Reality Behind the Names
    Mitka R. Golub
    The books of Ezra and Nehemiah are essentially a historiographic composition that recounts the story of the returnees from the Babylonian exile (586 BCE) to Judah during the Persian Period...
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    Delocutive Nouns in Biblical Hebrew
    Jan Joosten
    Delocutives are words derived from standing expressions. An example from British English is the verb “to tut-tut” as in: “We all spent a lot of time tut-tutting...
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    Iron Age Interpretations of Fossils and Bronze Age Artifacts: A Hypothesis-testing Approach to the Geography of Biblocal Giants
    Philip J. Senter
    Numerous passages in the Hebrew Bible mention extinct races that are described as giants. Some geographic regions (e.g. Moab, Ammon, Bashan, the Negev, and the hill country of Manasseh...

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