Wednesday, January 25, 2006

JBL OnLine

Yess, the articles of the Journal of Biblical Literature are now available online. I just visited the site, and checked the files for articles on Philo. While there are not that many, there are some, and several that deal with New Testament issues, drawing also on the works of Philo.
Just in time to celebrate JBL's 125th birthday, the SBL is pleased to offer all members free access to the full text of the Journal of Biblical Literature (1881-) within the JSTOR archive (recent issues will continue to be made available on the SBL website). Thus, for the first time ever, SBL members can search for any word or phrase within JBL, browse the contents of any issue, and read or print any article — no matter how long ago it may have been published.

To access the JSTOR JBL archive, simply come to the SBL website, log-in with your member ID number, navigate to the (JBL page), and click on the "Enter JSTOR" link. You will immediately be redirected to the JSTOR JBL archive, where you can search, browse, read, and print to your heart's content.


The most recent articles I have on paper (i.e. from the last 10 years), but the older ones have not always been available to me. Now I could make an outprint of, inter alia, these - some of these I did not even know about:

Mary E. Andrews,
'Paul, Philo and the Intellectuals,'
JBL 53(1934):150-166

Montgomery J. Shroyer,
'Alexandrian Jewish Literalists,'
JBL 55 (1936): 261-284.

Harry A. Wolfson,
'Philo on Jewish Citizenship in Alexandria,'
JBL 63 (1944): 165-168.

And there are others....

But the articles are only available to those being members of the Society of Biblical Literature. This launching of the complete set of articles from the JBL is just another great stimulus to be and/or to remain a member.

So now; what journal will be the next online....?

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