Compiled by Jack Cargill, Prof. of Ancient History (version of 12/03)
I have listed only journals that, to judge by their titles, seem to indicate a relevant geographical area (even if non-ancient articles are also included) or refer to ancient texts associated with the region (Bible, Qur‘an, etc.), or deal with practices or organizations of religions rooted in the area (but not theology or philosophy, unless tied specifically to practices or texts). See my other “Greco-Roman & General” journal list for broader-focus journals that may include articles on Ancient Near East topics also.
Most journals have only begun to be available online in quite recent years, so it is rarely possible to access articles prior to 1990 – and in many cases not before 2000. Articles in earlier volumes of these journals must be found within hard-copy volumes in the libraries’ stacks (or requested from storage)
How to access lists: Go to RU Libraries homepage; click Electronic Journals, Alphabetical Lists, Journal Title; then follow onscreen options to find individual articles.
Sometimes more than one entry in the Libraries’ list refers to the same journal, apparently indicating different collections to which RU has arranged to have online access. The list entry may indicate which such collection (Ebsco, Project Muse, etc.), but sometimes the collection is only identified after clicking on the title (PCI Full Text, etc.); the notation Jstor seems to mean Journal Storage, i.e., journals whose hard copies are not in the libraries per se, but somewhere nearby in storage. In my entries below, I have either combined all different lists for a journal, or provided the range of volumes in the most inclusive list. Depending on how the various lists indicate their contents, I describe holdings by range of months/days/years or by range of volume numbers (years). A description of holdings that ends with a hyphen means that the collection of volumes is continuing and ongoing, from whatever beginning point is indicated. That normally implies that volumes up to the most current volume are available, but some journals prohibit online access until some time has passed after hard-copy publication (usually a year), so in some cases the open-ended entries with a hyphen at the end refer to online collections through the previous (not the current) year. Sometimes abstracts of articles are available for volumes earlier than the volumes of online full-text articles; in such cases, I add a notation about abstracts.
Abbreviations repeatedly used in journal titles below:
His(’l/’n)=History/Historical/Historian; Archy/Archl=Archaeology/Archaeological; abstrs=abstracts; St(s)=Study/Studies; Jr=Journal; Rev=Review; Qtr=Quarterly; &=and; Am=American; Can=Canadian; Medn=Mediterranean; Comptv=Comparative; Mil=Military; Anc=Ancient; ANE(’n)=Ancient Near East(ern); NE(’n)=Near East(ern); ME(’n)=Middle East(ern); Cath=Catholic; Rel(s)=Religion(s); Bibcl=Biblical; OT=Old Testament; NT=New Testament
Arabian Archy & Epigraphy
Bibcl Interpretation
Brit Jr of ME’n
Sts
Cath Bibcl
Qtr
Cath His’l
Rev
Christian Century
His of Rels
Iranica Antiqua
1 (1961)-25 (1990),
Jr for the Scientific St of Rel 39 (2000)-
Jr for the St of Judaism in the
Persian, Hellenistic & Roman Period
Jr for the St of the His’l Jesus
Jr for the St of the NT
Jr for the St of the OT
Jr for the St of the Pseudepigrapha
Jr of ANE’n
Rels
Jr of Bibcl
Literature
Jr of Cuneiform Sts
Jr of NE’n Sts 10/1/93-
Jr of Palestine Sts
Jr of Qur‘anic
Sts
Jr of Rel
Jr of Religious His
Jr of the Am Oriental Society
Judaism
Logos: A Jr of Cath Thought & Culture 3 (2000)-
Method & Theory in the St of Rel
ME
ME Jr 1 (1947)-44 (1990)
ME Qtr
ME’n Sts
NT Sts 45 (1999)-
Northeast African Sts 6 (1999)-
Novum Testamentum 1 (1956)-37 (1995)
Numen 1 (1954)-37 (1990),
Palestine-Israel Jr of Politics,
Economics & Culture
Philistine 1 (1895)-41 (1915)
Rel 25 (1995)-32 (2002)
Rev of Bibcl Literature
Rev of Rabbinic Judaism
Rev of Religious Research
Reviews in Rel & Theology
Semeia
Shofar
SJOT: Scandinavian Jr of the OT
Vetus Testamentum