April 4, 2008

Please consider a gift to the 2008 Society Fund today. Your contributions are essential to the success of our programs and outreach. 

Your tax deductible contribution of:  

·        $100 allows us to give four complimentary student memberships. 

·        $200 enables us to give a complimentary membership and meeting registration to a colleague in an under developed country.

·     $500 permits us to prepare and develop five new resources

     for the ICI electronic access program.

Publications News

New on The SBL Forum :

The April issue focuses on a controversial new German Bible translation: Die Bibel in gerechter Sprache (The Bible in Inclusive Language).

The Spring 2008 Journal of Biblical Literature 127.1 has been posted.

SBL Publications has added new books to the Online Books Program.
For the complete list of books available, click here.

Recent Reprints:

Hymnic Affirmation of Divine Justice, James L. Crenshaw

Prophetic Conflict: Its Effect upon Israelite Religion, James L. Crenshaw

A Comprehensive Bilingual Concordance of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Ecclesiastes, John Jarick

Semitic Interference in Marcan Syntax, Elliott C. Maloney

The Hand of the Lord: A Reassessment of the "Ark Narrative" of 1 Samuel, Patrick D. Miller and J. J. M. Roberts

Sepher Ha-Razim: The Book of Mysteries, Michael A. Morgan

Logos and Sophia: The Rhetorical Situation of 1 Corinthians, Stephen M. Pogoloff

Brown Judaic Studies Reprints:

Sparda by the Bitter Sea, Jack Martin Balcer

Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Courts, Testimony and the Penal Code, Lawrence H. Schiffman

Fear Not Warrior: The Study of 'al tira' Pericopes in the Hebrew Scriptures, Edgar W. Conrad

Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies, Tzvi Abusch

New on The SBL Forum :

In Essential Links: Harvard Passes Resolution on Open Access

SBL Publications is adding ten new books to the Online Books Program this month.       
For the complete list of books available, click here.

Meetings News

Wabash Center is offering hands-on, interactive workshops on teaching college introductory religion courses before several of the Regional Meetings and our Annual Meeting. For more information:

http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/article.aspx?id=12699

Career Center

SBL e-news goes out to all members twice a month. Let us know what you think.

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March 3, 2008 e-newsletter

 This month on The SBL Forum

Towards an Ethic of Liberation for Bible Translation, Part 1: Ideology (Steven M. Voth)

Ancient Languages Are Still Around, but Do We Really Know How to Teach Them? (Rachel Halabe)


The Wiki Way: Improving Your Class Notes Using the Internet for Online Student Collaboration (Carl N. Toney)

Most new, recent, and backlist titles are available to SBL members at a 40% discount through June 15, 2008. This discount applies to SBL and Brown Judaic Studies titles. It does not apply to titles from Sheffield Phoenix Press.

 SBL Publications is adding ten new books to the Online Books Program this month. For the complete list of books available, click here.

Professional Development

A report from the most recent SBL lecture series for religious leaders: The Death Penalty - Engaging the Bible held last weekend atTexas Christian University and Brite Divinity School.

Membership News

Please fill out your Optional Profile Information! Log into the site and click the “my profile” link in the “Welcome” box. Then click "Edit" under Optional Profile Information.  This information gives the committees the information they need to serve the membership and address trends in the profession.

Career Center

Career Center Updates : March 1 we started taking ads for jobs.

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February 15-29, 2008 e-news

Meetings News

Annual Meeting News: Call for Papers closes March 1. Additional Meetings packet has been posted and more…

International Meeting News: Register on-line, Advertiser and Exhibitor packet posted and travel info now available.

Regional Meetings: The Midwest Region is meeting this weekend in Bourbonnais, IL.                            

The Bible and Death Penalty - A public workshop will take place Feb 22-23 featuring Virginia Owens, author of numerous books on the subject.  Her latest work is Living Next Door to the Death House (Eerdmans, 2003).  The workshop will be at the Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University.

Publications News

Journal of Biblical Literature  126.4, Winter 2007 has been posted.

The SBL Forum has added an article from J. H. Charlesworth: Rebutting Sensational Claims Concerning a Symposium in Jerusalem

The Hittites and Their World, by Billie Jean Collins, 2007, SBLABS 7
 

John, Jesus, and History: Critical Appraisals of Critical Views, edited by Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, and Tom Thatcher, 2007, SBLSymS 44

Professional Development

For those interested in the Bible in Public Education: The Southeastern Region has a pre-conferenceWorkshop on “Improving Introductory Courses in Religion and Theology” scheduled for March 7 at their meeting in Atlanta.

SBL Publications offers a resource to enable biblical studies instructors to facilitate engaging classroom experiences by drawing on the arts and popular culture.
Teaching the Bible through Popular Culture and the Arts
Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray, editors

Membership News

Thank-you to Donors: we reached our goal!

International Cooperation Initiative one of the projects supported by donations

Career Center

Career Center Changes: Keep up on news about the new SBL Jobs lists and Jobs at the Annual Meeting plans.

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We want to alert you to changes that are soon to take place in Openings, our online job posting service, and in the Employment Information Services that are offered at AAR and SBL Annual Meetings.

The Openings website will be closed on March 31, 2008.  Advertisers may continue to place Openings ads until Monday, March 18, 2008.  Please note that advertisements placed between now and March 18, 2008 can be run only until March 31, 2008.

On Tuesday, April 1, 2008, both the AAR and the SBL will open new independent websites, similar to Openings, on which job listings may be posted and viewed.  Advertisers who plan to place April 2008 ads should contact the AAR or SBL offices for more information about the new services.  Look for announcements from each organization about these new services. 

The AAR and the SBL will provide services similar to the Employment Information Services at their respective Annual Meetings in Chicago and Boston.  Look for announcements from each organization about these new services.

We hope these new services will meet your advertising and job search needs.