Open Access Journal: Bulletin for Biblical Research (BBR)

 For over 30 years, the Institute for Biblical Research has offered to evangelical biblical scholars and Ph.D. students a venue for creative, reflective and serious biblical scholarship. One might not have suspected such an auspicious outcome back in 1970, when a few biblical scholars gathered for lunch during the SBL meeting in New York. The meeting was called by E. Earle Ellis, the founding visionary behind IBR. He dreamed of a North American based residential reference library (non-lending) similar to that of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Research, Tyndale House Library, Cambridge, England. For the following three years, a small group calling themselves the Tyndale Committee discussed the viability of creating a residential library. In the end, they were persuaded that the library vision required a societal matrix to realize its goal, and thus in 1973 was birthed the Institute for Biblical Research...

...Publications were a primary concern for IBR. In 1989 it launched the Bulletin for Biblical Research (BBR) under the editorship of Bruce Chilton, published by Eisenbrauns. The first journal was published in 1991. In 1994, Craig Evans continued as editor and advanced BBR to a bi-annual journal. In 2005, Richard S. Hess took over editorial responsibilities, significantly enlarging the journal. The BBR Supplement Series began in 2007 with the appearance of its first monograph.

BBR 21:1

• Scholar and Advocate: The Stories of Moses in Midrash Exodus Rabbah
  Michael Graves
• The “At-Sinai Narrative”: Exodus 18–Numbers 10
  John I. Lawlor
• Philo on Phinehas and the Levites: Observing an Exegetical Connection
  David Lincicum
• The Genre of 2 Peter: A Comparison with Jewish and Early Christian Testaments
  Mark D. Matthews
• Revelatory Experience and Pseudepigraphical Attribution in Early Jewish Apocalypses
  Armin D. Baum

BBR 21:2

• Old Testament Gemstones: A Philological, Geological, and Archaeological Assessment of the Septuagint
  James A. Harrell
• A Communion of Subjects: Zoological Classification and Human/Animal Relations in Psalm 104
  Richard Whitekettle
• Building House to House (Isaiah 5:8): Theological Reflection on Land Development and Creation Care
  Heath A. Thomas
• NT Scholars’ Use of OT Lament Terminology and Its Theological and Interdisciplinary Implications
  D. Keith Campbell
• Peter and the Prophetic Word: The Theology of Prophecy Traced through Peter’s Sermons and Epistles
  Paul A. Himes

BBR 21:3

• Distinguishing the Angel of the Lord
  Andrew S. Malone
• The Seventy Sevens of Daniel 9: A Timetable for the Future?
  Richard S. Hess
• Otho: A Targeted Comparison of Suetonius’s Biography and Tacitus’s History, with Implications for the Gospels’ Historical Reliability
  Craig S. Keener
• The Temple and the Thorn: 2 Corinthians 12 and Paul’s Heavenly Ecclesiology
  Jason B. Hood
• Angels of the Churches in Revelation 1–3: Status Quaestionis and Another Proposal
  Everett Ferguson