A good friend of mine reminded me that articles in the journal Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici sul Vicino Oriente Antico (SEL) are available for free download–and there are many articles there worth your while. Also, on the Digital Orient blog...

Yesterday I was in the Seminary library and I overheard a student talking with one of his peers about his PhD ambitions.  He mentioned that he liked the Old Testament but did not know Hebrew very well and so he was going to focus on Old Testament...

Marc Zvi Brettler has a very creative and informative recontextualization of a portion of Amos’ sermon (1:3-5) in his book, How to Read the Jewish Bible (now out in paperback).  It sure makes the passage more intelligible to modern readers. ...

Dear Committee, Since you are beginning the process of revising the NIV translation for a 2011 release I wanted to take this opportunity early in the process to express a few modest suggestions that might improve a very popular Bible translation. ...

Yale University has a number of free lectures and class materials available online.  I previously mentioned the Old Testament Intro course taught by Christine Hayes but they also have a more recently added New Testament Intro taught by Dale B....