The focus of this ambitious series is on the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel and its literature, from the early Neolithic to the early Hellenistic eras. Studies that are heavily philological or archaeological are both suited to this series, and can take full advantage of the hypertext capabilities of “born digital” publication. Multiple author and edited volumes as well as monographs are accepted. Proposals and manuscripts may be submitted in either English or Spanish. Manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two scholars in the area before acceptance. Published volumes will be held to the high scholarly standards of the SBL and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente. The partnership between the SBL and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente was initiated under the auspices of SBL’s International Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and represents the type of international scholarly exchange that is the goal of ICI.
This series is the ideal place to publish for authors and editors who wish their work to be widely read. Works published in the series are (and will remain permanently) open access. This ensures the widest possible readership for these works.
Advantages to publishing in this series include:
- Publication through a peer-review process backed by the SBL and the Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente;
- Rapid turnaround for editorial approval (3 months, maximum);
- Rapid publication after final manuscript submission;
- Manuscript formatting that follows SBL house style conventions;
- Global dissemination through the Internet as PDF files, an open-source archival format supported by Adobe Reader, a freely downloadable application;
- Immediate access to PDFs that are currently being served by over six mirror sites in North and South America;
- Use of the PDF standard and multiple web hosting addresses data curation mandates for access and preservation ;
- Enhanced discovery by Google and other web search-engines due to its “indexibility” as an online PDF file;
- Fully searchable PDFs as local files on your hard drive because they are uploaded after an optical character recognition routine has been initialized;
- RSS-feed notification of publication of new volumes;
- Guaranteed migration of PDF files to any superior archival files that become widely adopted.
General Co-Editors: Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta;
Roxana Flammini, Universidad Católica Argentina
Editorial Board:
Michael Floyd, Centro de Estudios Teológicos, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana;
José Galán, Director de la Misión Española y Egipcia en Dra Abu el-Naga, Luxor, Egipto;
Graciela Gestoso Singer, Universidad Católica Argentina;
Erhard Gerstenberger, Philipps Universität-Marburg;
Steven W. Holloway, American Theological Library Association;
Alan Lenzi, University of the Pacific;
Santiago Rostom Maderna, Universidad Católica Argentina;
Martti Nissinen, University of Helsinki;
Juan Manuel Tebes, Universidad Católica Argentina, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Questions about the series or proposals for volumes should be directed to
Ehud Ben Zvi,
Roxana Flammini or
Billie Jean Collins