Open Access Journal: JANES - Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society

JANES, the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, was founded in 1968 at Columbia University, and has been housed at the Jewish Theological Seminary since 1982. Over these approximately forty years 30 volumes have been published under the editorship of former JTS professor Ed Greenstein and JTS professor David Marcus. The volumes include approximately three hundred and fifty articles written by over two hundred scholars and students from all over the world. The impressive array of scholars that have contributed articles to these volumes includes well-known names such as G. R. Driver, H. L. Ginsberg, Jonas Greenfield, William Hallo, Thorkild Jacobsen, Jacob Milgrom, A. L. Oppenheim, to mention but a few. Over the years there have been five special issues celebrating JTS and Columbia scholars Elias Bickerman, Meir Bravmann, Theodor Gaster, Moshe Held, and Yochanan Muffs. Articles have been written on all aspects of the Bible and Ancient Near East covering areas such as art history, archaeology, anthropology, language, linguistics, philology, and religion. There are articles on Assyriology, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hittite, and all areas of Hebrew and Aramaic and on almost every book of the Bible. Manuscripts should be composed according to the SBL style sheet and sent to the Editors, c/o Ed Greenstein (greenstein.ed@gmail.com)

2021(1)

• Vol. 35, Issue 1, 2021

  JANES Volume 35 Issue 1

   

  • General

    JANES 35 Frontmatter

    JANES Editors

    Frontmatter for JANES 35

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    The Last Chapter in the Book of Chronicles (2 Chronicles 36): A Literary Analysis

    Itzhak Amar

    The present study deals with the final chapter in the book of Chronicles (2 Chronicles 36).

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    Kidnapping the Gods: Assyrian Cultic Despoliation and Aniconism in Isaiah 10:5-11

    Jessie DeGrado

    In Isa 10:7–10, an unnamed Assyrian king stands poised to invade Judah.

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    Reading Ugaritic Narrative-Poetry: The Epic Description of Kirta’s Expediation to Udum in KTU 1.14

    Shirly Natan-Yulzary

    The Epic of Kirta sets the stage for the epic with a detailed description of the loss of Kirta’s family

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    Law and Order in Judges 19-21

    Sarah Schwartz

    A synchronic reading of Judges 19–20 shows that the narrative is placed in a structure of crime and punishment.

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    In Search of Libnah

    Matthew J. Suriano Itzhaq Shai Joe Uziel

    Certainly, the landscape of the biblical narrative is filled with obscure and little known towns and farmsteads.

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    The Biblical ’āṭād: A New Proposal for its Identification

    Daniel Vainstub

    The purpose of this article is to track the references to the _’āṭād_ in various sources from biblical times to the present.

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