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We are pleased to announce that the 2013 SBL Travel Grant recipients:
Shira Leibowitz Schmidt – Michlalah College - Jerusalem, Israel; Nicholas Al-Jeloo – University of Sydney, Australia; Fatima Tofighi – University of Glasgow, Iran; Ivor Poobalan – Colombo Theological Seminary, Sri Lanka
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Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan New President of Claremont School of Theology
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We are pleased to announce that the 2013 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship has been awarded to Jeremy M. Hutton (University of Wisconsin – Madison). His paper is entitled, “Upon the Roof of the Temple: Reconstructing Ancient Levantine Small-Scale Altar Usage.”
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We are pleased to announce that the 2013 Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship has been awarded to Joshua W. Jipp, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His paper is entitled, “Christ the King as Living Law: Paul’s the ‘Law of Christ’ and Ancient Kingship Discourse.”
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SBL Author Awarded Stendahl Medal in Biblical Studies
The Graduate Theological Foundation awarded Professor Christo Lombaard of the University of South Africa the prestigious Krister Stendahl Medal in Biblical Studies on May 3 in recognition of his book, The Old Testament and Christian Spirituality: Theoretical and Practical Essays from a South African Perspective, recently published by the Society of Biblical Literature as part of its series "International Voices in Biblical Studies." Named in honor of the world-renowned New Testament scholar and Dean of Harvard Divinity School, the late Rt. Rev. Dr. Krister Stendahl, the Medal is reserved for those outstanding scholars who have made a significant contribution to the field of Biblical Studies.

Colleagues have sadly learned of the passing of one of the most influential scholars in biblical studies, Professor Geza Vermes (1924-2013). Posts about this loss to humanities, friends, family, and colleagues are listed here:
PaleoJudaica.com
NT Blog
The Times of London



SBL Initiatives
The Christian Science Monitor has published a timely op-ed article on SBL’s Qur’an Society initiative. See article here.

The Society of Biblical Literature has received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to explore the formation of an independent network of Qur’anic scholars, called the Society for Qur’anic Studies. Read the announcement here.

Also covered in:
Across Religions, Persistent Battles Over What the Faithful May Read
New York Times

For Koranic Studies, a Scholarly Society Is Born
Chronicle of Higher Education

A Big Tent Society
Inside Higher Ed

Bible scholars back more critical studies of Qur’an
Christian Century

Back to school with the Bible….and the Qur’an
Washington Post

Bible Odyssey Project News

Meetings & Events
St. Andrews, Scotland
July 7-11, 2013

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Educational Resources
Undergraduate/Graduate Level

Community Colleges and Biblical Studies by Geth Allison

Syllabi Collection for Teaching the Bible

New Teaching Initiative
Syllabus, a new peer-refereed journal, intends to provide an outlet for recognition and support to faculty who excel in teaching. It will publish original course syllabi, essays, and shorter “tool box” entries. All are subjected to blind peer review.

Research Tools
Secondary Education

Studies
SBL member and SMU faculty member Mark Chancey has completed a study of Bible courses in Texas public high schools for the Texas Freedom Network. In 2007 the Texas legislature passed a bill that required public high schools to include some treatment of the Bible and its influence in their courses. This thorough study reveals the pressing problems related to teacher training, curricular development, and religious bias. You can read the full or abridged report here. 

Bible Electives in Public Schools: A Guide can now be viewed on-line (8.55MB) or print copies ordered by e-mailing Moira Bucciarelli. Mac users will need to view the pdf in Acrobat Reader, not Preview.

The Bible in Public Schools Initiative

 
 
 
 
 
  
Career Resources

SBL works with many different organizations and institutions to enrich and broaden the spectrum of resources that the Society can offer members. It worked closely with the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) to produce A Portrait of Part-Time Faculty Members, which provided data critical to our work in SBL. Equally critical are data from a new study by the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success that concern the impact of contingent working conditions on student learning outcomes. Download the data report and read some of the press coverage. SBL also annually publishes a report in cooperation with AAR on the job advertisement data the organizations collect. Download the 2001-2010 report here.

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Publications
Constructs of Prophecy in the Former and Latter Prophets and Other Texts, edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Martti Nissinen is the most recent publication in the Ancient Near East Monographs Series. Get it free online or order from the SBL bookstore.

SBL is pleased to offer, in association with Logos Bible Software, a new, critically edited Greek New Testament in electronic and print formats.
 
SBL is pleased to announce the publication of a new book in this online, open-access series. Women at Work in the Deuteronomistic History, by Mercedes L. García Bachmann, is available for download on the website or from the SBL store in paperback. To learn more about this series, click here.




Society News
The March/April issue of Teaching the Bible, an SBL e-newsletter for high school teachers, has been posted.

The SBL Interviews page has an audio interview with Ramsay MacMullen.

The 2012 Society Report is now available
 
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