Friday 7 March 2008

10 New SBL Online Books: Free Access for Two-Thirds World

Earlier on, I highlighted the very encouraging International Cooperation Initiative undertaken by SBL Publications in making several books available online for free for scholars from the Two-Thirds World, and Malaysia is one of the beneficiaries of this initiative.

For the month of February, SBL Publications is adding ten new books to the Online Books Programme as follow:

Tauberschmidt, Gerhard. Secondary Parallelism: A Study of Translation Technique in LXX Proverbs. Academia Biblica 15. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

Brant, Jo-Ann A., Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea, eds., Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative. Symposium 32. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Russell, Donald A. and David Konstan, eds. & trans., Heraclitus: Homeric Problems. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 14. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Pardee, Dennis. Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. Writings from the Ancient World 10. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002

Penner, Todd and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds., Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse. Symposium 20. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Clarke, Emma C., John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell, eds., Iamblichus: On the Mysteries. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 4. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Roncace, Mark and Patrick Gray, eds., Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction. Resources for Biblical Study 49. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Moore, Stephen D. and Janice Capel Anderson, eds., New Testament Masculinities. Semeia Studies 45. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Smith, Richard, A Concise Coptic-English Lexicon: Second Edition. Resources for Biblical Study 35. Atlanta. Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.

Finlan, Stephen. The Background and Content of Paul’s Cultic Atonement Metaphors. Academia Biblica 19. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.

For the complete list of books available, click here.

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