Carl Rasmussen and Jesse Gavin have made openly available a number of photographs from various Mediterranean and Near Eastern sites.
HT: Randall Bailey
Tag: Historical Backgrounds
Niese’s and Loeb’s Josephuses
All seven volume’s of Niese’s edition of Josephus’s works are available online. Most are available on Internet Archive in both black-and-white and full color. But, for volumes 2 and 5, one has to go to the black-and-white text only scans on Google Books:
- Volume 1: Jewish Antiquities (bks. 1–5)
- Volume 2: Jewish Antiquities (bks. 6–10)
- Volume 3: Jewish Antiquities (bks. 11–15)
- Volume 4: Jewish Antiquities (bks. 16–20)
- Volume 5: Against Apion
- Volume 6: Jewish War
- Volume 7: Index
Several of the Loeb series volumes are aggregated on Loebolus:
Thesis-style Numistmatism Wanted
From AWOL:
The American Numismatic Society has created an Open Access digital library. One purpose is to host unpublished and/or orphaned MA and PhD theses/dissertations that have numismatic content. As a part of this library your thesis will be Open Access, full-text searchable, and http://schema.org properties will help Google relevance. If you (or someone you know) wants their research hosted for free (CC-BY license) alongside other numismatic work, email Andrew Reinhard at [email protected].
Un-Bock-sing the Importance of Backgrounds
The Logos blog has a couple minute and slightly humorous segment from Darrell Bock on the importance of background information for New Testament Studies.
Lexham Updates
The Lexham Theological Wordbook began shipping late last year and includes my entry on “Forgiveness.”
The Lexham Bible Dictionary has recently been updated with, among other items, my entries on “Haifa” and “Jenin.”
Connections can read these contributions via my LinkedIn page under “Publications.”
Walton, Matthews, and Chavalas, Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament
John Walton, Victor Matthews, and Mark Chavalas
Ahead of class this fall, the folks at InterVarsity have kindly forwarded John Walton, Victor Matthews, and Mark Chavalas’s Old Testament backgrounds commentary (2000). According to the publisher’s description,
The unique commentary joins The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament in providing historical, social and cultural background for each passage of the Old Testament. From Genesis through Malachi, this single volume gathers and condenses an abundance of specialized knowledge—making it available and accessible to ordinary readers of the Old Testament. Expert scholars John Walton, Victor Matthews and Mark Chavalas have included along with the fruits of their research and collaboration
- a glossary of historical terms, ancient peoples, texts and inscriptions
- maps and charts of important historical resources
- expanded explanations of significant background issues
- introductory essays on each book of the Old Testament
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament will enrich your experience of the Old Testament—and your teaching and preaching from Scripture—in a way that no other commentary can do.