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Journal of Biblical Literature

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The Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship. Bringing the highest level of technical expertise to bear on the canon, cognate literature, and the historical matrix of the Bible, JBL has stood as the flagship journal of biblical studies for more than a century.


General Editor: Susan E. Hylen

Associate Editors: Stacy Davis, Davina Lopez, and Christian Stadel

Managing Editor: Jonathan M. Potter

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Questions? Contact the Managing Editor.

JBL is hosted online by the Scholarly Publishing Collective. JBL archival content appears courtesy of JSTOR.

JBL is indexed by

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Scopus
Atla Religion Database
Religious and Theological Abstracts

New Testament Abstracts
Old Testament Abstracts
Periodicals Index Online
European Reference Index for the Humanities

ISSN (electronic) 1934-3876
ISSN (print) 0021-9231