5.0694 CONTENTS: Relig. Studies EJournal (1/183)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 18 Feb 1992 20:49:49 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0694. Tuesday, 18 Feb 1992.

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 20:53:46 EST
From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject: Religious Studies Publications Journal


Project Overview Version 1.0

THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL - CONTENTS

Project Description

The Religious Studies Publications Journal (CONTENTS) is a networked
electronic journal that brings together academic publishers and online
scholars in Religious Studies and related fields. This list will provide a
free information service to academic publishers and the more than 1,000
scholars in religious studies and related fields who are online with BITNET,
Internet, and other international computer networks. CONTENTS' primary
function is the posting of table of contents, standard bibliographic, pricing
and ordering information and, when available, abstracts of new books and
journal issues of interest to academics in the broad field of Religious
Studies.

As you may know, the Bryn Mawr Classical Review list is presently posting
electronic reviews of new works in classical studies, and the IOUDAIOS list
is producing reviews in early Judaism. CONTENTS extends these models of
electronic publication services by combining electronic reviews with table of
contents and ordering information of new books and journals in print.
Publishers are encouraged to provide an electronic mail contact address so as
to enable CONTENTS' subscribers to order texts via the network. This
electronic journal is designed in anticipation of the developing
commercialization of the academic networks and anticipates the growing trend
within publishing houses of accommodating individual chapter and single
article purchases.

CONTENTS operates by obtaining permission from participating publishers to
scan or type the table of contents only from new and recent releases and then
posts this information to list members. To the table of contents is added
information on the publisher, number of pages, price and if available,
online ordering contact. Publishers also are encourage to submit abstracts.
See below for a sample posting of a recent publication to CONTENTS.

This electronic journal is a free forum for both publishers and subscribers.
No one at any time will receive payment with respect to this list or be
charged in any way.

Contents will also post information on works in progress, dissertations,
networked documents and audio-visual resources of relevance to Religious
Studies.

All publication records posted to CONTENTS are archived via LISTSERV at
Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.Ca and may be searched or
downloaded by the network community. Eventually, all CONTENTS records will
be fully searchable as an online public access database via TELNET.

Presently there are almost two hundred subscribers to CONTENTS and five
participating publishers; Blackwell Publishers, the Catholic University of
America Press, Sheffield Academic Press (JSOT Press), University of Scranton
Press, and Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Subscription Information:

To subscribe to the _Religious Studies Publication Journal_, send the
following e-mail message to Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA
SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS your name
To determine the status of your subscription to CONTENTS, send the following
e-mail message to the above address: QUERY CONTENTS

Contact the project director at 441495@Uottawa or 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA
if you experience difficulty subscribing to CONTENTS.

The list will not be conversational. Frequency of postings will depend on
the number of cooperating publishers.


Sample CONTENTS Posting (not including a review):

The following is a sample of how publication records will look when posted to
CONTENTS.

{BOOK IN SERIES}
[TITLE] Second Temple Studies: 1. Persian Period
[PUB LOCATION] Sheffield, England
[PUBLISHER] JSOT Press
[DATE] 1991
[ISBN] 1-85075-315-6
[SERIES TITLE] Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement
Series 117
[EDITORS] Davies, Philip R.

[TABLE OF CON]
Abbreviations
List of Contributors

Sociology and the Second Temple
- Philip R. Davies................................................... 11

ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND SOCIETY

Temple and Society in Achaemenid Judah
- Joseph Blenkinsopp................................................. 22

The Achaemenid Context
- Kenneth Hoglund.................................................... 54

The Politics of Ezra:
Sociological Indicators of Postexilic Judaean Society
- Daniel L. Smith.................................................... 73

Reconstructing History from the Book of Ezra
Lester L. Grabbe..................................................... 98

LITERATURE AND SOCIETY

Textual Strategies and Ideology in the Second Temple Period
- Robert P. Carroll................................................. 108
The Temple in Persian Period Prophetic Texts
- David L. Petersen................................................. 125

CRITIQUE

Nehemiah 5: By way of a Response to Hoglund and Smith
- John H. Halligan.................................................. 146

On Models and Texts: A Response to Blenkinsopp and Petersen
- Peter Ross Bedford................................................ 154

Empire, Temple and Community - But no Bourgeoisie!
A Response to Blenkinsopp and Petersen
- Richard A. Horsley................................................ 163

Texts and the World - An Unbridgeable Gap?
A Response to Carroll, Hoglund and Smith
- David Jobling..................................................... 175

Index of References
Index of Authors

[DESCRIPTION] This volume is a collection of essays that grew out of
the Society of Biblical Literature's "Sociology of the Second Temple
Consultation". Joseph Blenkinsopp's essay, "Temple and Society in
Achaemenid Judah" offers a critique of Joel Weinberg's `civic-temple
community' theory and concludes that the Babylonian immigrants that
constituted Achaemenid Judah imported and successfully imposed the
social settings from their Persian diaspora.
Kenneth Hoglund's essay, "The Achaemenid Context" investigates
the impact of Achaemenid imperial rule on the social constitution of the
Judaean postexilic community. The author suggests that the postexilic
community's ideology of ethnic separation resulted from an imperial
mechanism of ethnic collectivization that was promoted by imperial
officials.
Daniel Smith's essay, "The Politics of Ezra: Sociological
Indicators of Postexilic Judaean Society" applies sociological and
anthropological analysis to textual and archaeological evidence from
exilic and postexilic sources. The postexilic community found itself
involved in a class based conflict that cannot be reduced to religion
alone. Social boundaries were a survival mechanism of an `exilic
consciousness'.
Lester Grabbe's essay, "Reconstructing History from the Book of
Ezra" challenges the validity of a basic consensus on the authenticity
of certain sections of Ezra and Nehemiah. Grabbe calls for a
re-evaluation of the `Persian documents' of Ezra 1-7 and of the general
reliability of Ezra for a reconstruction of the history of Judah.
Robert Carroll's essay, "Textual Strategies and Ideology in the
Second Temple Period" demonstrates the social and ideological background
of certain Temple texts. His analysis uncovers, among other things,
female subversiveness' as a fundamental characteristic of biblical
women.
David Petersen's essay, "The Temple in Persian Period Prophetic
Texts" looks at the significance of the temple within Persian period
texts and investigates the supposed incorporation of prophecy into the
cult at this time.
These essays are critique in four following essays by various
authors.

For ordering information please contact Philip Davies,
<bs1pd@primea.Sheffield.ac.uk>, Sheffield Academic Press.
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For more information about CONTENTS:

Contact the project director,

Michael Strangelove 441495@Uottawa
Department of Religious Studies 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA
University of Ottawa FAX: (613) 564-6641
177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario Voice: (613) 564-2300
CANADA K1N 6N5