Tag: Jewish Backgrounds

  • In the (e)mail: Nanos and Zetterholm, “Paul within Judaism”

    In addition to the Boccacci and Segovia and Rodríguez and Thiessen volumes, Fortress Press has kindly, if accidentally, passed along a review copy of Mark Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm’s edited volume Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-century Context to the Apostle (2015). According to the book’s blurb: In these chapters, a group of renowned international scholars seek…

  • In the (e)mail: Boccaccini and Segovia, “Paul the Jew”

    In my email recently, I found Fortress Press had kindly provided a review copy of Gabriele Boccaccini and Carlos Segovia’s edited volume Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016). According to the book’s blurb: The decades-long effort to understand the apostle Paul within his Jewish context is now firmly established in…

  • Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting

    Access to the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting is open and available online. JJMJS is: a peer-reviewed academic open access journal, published electronically (immediate free online availability) in co-operation with Eisenbrauns, with support of McMaster University and Caspari Center….   The journal aims, uniquely, to advance scholarship on this crucial period in…

  • Lightfoot, Hebrew and Talmudical Exercitations

    Internet Archive has full-text PDFs available of John Lightfoot’s Hebrew and Talmudical Exercitations (a.k.a., Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica; Oxford, 1859): Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4

  • 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)…

  • 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 One purpose is to host unpublished and/or orphaned MA and PhD theses/dissertations that have numismatic content.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…