Open Access Journal: AABNER: Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research

The journal is the first open-access and forum-peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire field of biblical studies and cognate fields in its diversity, and it is committed to the principles of the EABS in terms of equal opportunity, non-discrimination, and academic rigor. This journal innovates the way humanities scholarship is published, by utilizing an open peer-review system  known as "forum review." In this system all reviewers' comments are visible to all other reviewers. This system enables AABNER to maintain rigor while encouraging innovative approaches and keeping review time to a minimum. 

The aim of the journal is to provide a high-quality and innovative venue for the open access dissemination of biblical and cognate scholarship from Europe and around the world. The journal will encompass all fields touching on and relevant for the study of both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, early Jewish and Christian studies, from ancient times to reception in the present, as represented by the remit of the EABS. Thus, studies involving the Near East and Mediterranean worlds in their own right also fall within this scope.

The broad scope of the journal will enable it to function as the premier disciplinary journal, much like the functions of Nature, History, and Communication in their respective fields. Moreover, the journal will seek to avoid methodological stagnation and disciplinary isolation through its deliberate commitment to plurality within its scope.

Vol 1 No 3 (2021): Engaging Ritual in the Biblical Texts — A Comparative Approach

Kristine Garroway and Christine Palmer

Published: 2021-12-31

Editorial

Introduction: Ritual in Biblical Text and Biblical Lands

Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Christine Elizabeth Palmer

1-9

Research Articles

Dressing Up: Role-Playing in the Egyptian WPT R Ritual and a contextualized View of the Biblical Priesthood

Nancy Erickson

13-27

Human Identity and Purpose Redefined: Gen 1:26–28 and 2:5–25 in Context

Catherine McDowell

31-44

Prayers for This Life and the Next: The Polysemy of Mortuary Psalms in their Ancient Near Eastern Context

Christopher B. Hays

47-80

“You Have Refined Us Like Silver is Refined” (Ps 66:10): Yahweh’s Metallurgical Poers in Ancient Judah

Jeremy D. Smoak

83-115

What Did Feeding the Dead Mean? Two Case Studies from Iron Age Tombs at Beth-Shemesh

Matthew Suriano

119-142

A Pilgrimage to Iron Age II Tel Dan

David Ilan, Jonathan S. Greer

145-190

 

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Vol 1 No 2 (2021)

Sail, Pray, Steer

Aaron Brody

1-30

Das sogenannte Ägypter-Archiv von Assur (N31)

Melanie Wasmuth

31-79

Reinventing the wheel?

Mikael Larsson

Imperialism, Identity, and Language Choice in Persian Yehud

Jason M. Silverman

Les trois sagesses de Baruch

Raphaëlle Berterottière

81-108

Vol 1 No 1 (2021): Conceptualizing the Divine in the Levant and Mesopotamia

Published: 2021-07-01

Editorial

Inaugural AABNER editorial

Izaak Jozias de Hulster, Valérie Nicolet, Ronit Nikolsky, Jason M. Silverman

1-12

AABNER Forum Peer Review System

Izaak Jozias de Hulster, Valérie Nicolet, Ronit Nikolsky, Jason M. Silverman

13-22

Conceptualizing the Divine in the Levant and Mesopotamia

Izaak Jozias de Hulster

23-27

Research Articles

The Day Storm in Mesopotamian Literature

Sebastian Fink, Mark S. Smith

29-63

Bringing to Birth

Karen Langton

65-88

Wings, Weapons, and the Horned Tiara

Joanna Töyräänvuori

89-128

Migrating Demons, Liminal Deities, and Assyria's Western Campaigns

Gina Konstantopoulos

129-148

The Temple of Ištar of Arbela

Martti Nissinen, Raija Mattila

149-168

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