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Society Report November 2006 SBL Celebrates 125 Years of JBL Editors Ñ Ó Society Report November 2006 SBL celebrates 125 Years of JBL Editors ñ ó 1880–1883 Frederic Gardiner 1943–1947 Robert H. Pfeiffer 1883–1889 Hinckley G. Mitchell 1948–1950 J. Philip Hyatt 1889–1894 George Foot Moore 1951–1954 Robert C. Dentan 1894–1900 David G. Lyon 1955–1959 David Noel Freedman 1901–1904 Lewis B. Paton 1960–1969 Morton S. Enslin 1905–1906 James Hardy Ropes 1970 John Reumann 1907 Benjamin W. Bacon 1971–1976 Joseph A. Fitzmyer 1908–1909 Julius A. Bewer 1977–1982 John H. Hayes 1910–1913 James A. Montgomery 1983–1988 Victor Paul Furnish 1914–1921 Max L. Margolis 1989–1994 John J. Collins 1922–1929 George Dahl 1995–1999 Jouette M. Bassler 1930–1933 Carl H. Kraeling 2000–2005 Gail R. O’Day 1934 George Dahl 2006– James C. VanderKam 1935–1942 Erwin R. Goodenough Features 125 Years of SBL Publications The Year in Review ............................2 ttentive readers will no doubt notice that this edition of the SBL Three New Book Series ................. 2 Society Report focuses on SBL Publications more than has been Journal of Biblical Literature ............ 3 the case in years past. The reason for this is simple: 2006 marks Athe 125th year of the Society’s publishing program, which gives us cause Review of Biblical Literature ........... 3 The SBL Forum ..............................3 not only to celebrate but also to reflect about all that our many authors, Marketing SBL Books ......................4 editors, members, and staff have achieved since the first issue of the New and Recent Titles ...................5 Journal of Biblical Literature was published in 1881. Edinburgh Retrospective ................. 7 Although the SBL’s early leaders no doubt entertained high hopes for Regional Scholars ......................... 8 both the Society and its journal, few could have imagined the growth or College and University Partnerships .. 9 the phenomenal success set in motion by that first 72-page issue of JBL. Clean Audit and Financial Strength . 10 For example, since its inception JBL has published 397 separate issues comprising over 53,000 pages. Further, nearly 2,000 different authors From the Executive Director ............. 11 have published over 3,200 articles or critical notes within the pages SBL Anniversary Campaign Donors .... 12 of JBL—not to mention the over 5,200 published book reviews. Add the hundreds of articles published by various authors in the 88 issues From the Membership ...................... 15 of Semeia (1974–2002), and one begins to appreciate the remarkable Future Directions ............................ 16 contribution that the Society’s journal publications have made to the Programs and Initiatives ............... 16 shape and direction of the field. But this is merely the tip of the iceberg. Student Advisory Group ............... 17 Since publishing C. C. Torrey’s Lives of the Prophets as its first SBL Continues to Grow ................. 17 monograph in 1946, the Society has also released over 600 individual New AM Sessions in 2006 ............. 18 titles in 21 different book series—well over 100,000 pages of the finest of United Bible Societies Workshop ... 18 biblical scholarship. By publishing vital classroom resources, important Bible and Religious Leadership ....... 19 collections of ancient texts, exemplary dissertations from emerging New Online Initiatives .................. 20 scholars, the mature reflections of seasoned academics, and jointly Budget for 2006–2007 ................. 21 authored works on a wide variety of topics, SBL Publications has not only played a formative role in the development of biblical studies as People ........................................... 22 a discipline but has also provided a forum for scholars from diverse Administrative Committees .......... 22 settings and locations to share the fruits of their labors with colleagues Editors and Editorial Boards .......... 23 around the world. But the story does not end even here. Annual Meeting Program Unit Chairs . 24 In recent years SBL Publications has broken free from the confines SBL Staff .................................... 28 of paper and ink and joined the world of online publishing. Leading the way was the Review of Biblical Literature, which to date has published 1 SocietyThe Year Report in Review reviews of nearly 3,300 different books—all available for Bible) and Laurence L. Welborn (New Testament), SBLHBS will free online viewing by members and nonmembers alike. make available in English translation seminal biblical-studies SBL Forum has also taken its place as a vital component resources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of the SBL’s online publications program. Each month SBL that have never before appeared in English in spite of their past Forum offers a number of timely, informed, and thought- and ongoing significance for biblical scholarship. However, the series will also consider the publication of monographs devoted provoking articles on a wide variety of topics, such as to a history of biblical scholarship and may, in some circum- biblical studies in the arts, the classroom, the public stances, publish translations of more recent works important sphere, popular culture, and the profession. Finally, SBL for the history of biblical studies. Publications has just welcomed two new additions to its The first two volumes that will appear in the series have program: TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism and the already been commissioned: (1) Julius Wellhausen, Israelitische Online Critical Pseudepigrapha. Together with the SBL’s und jüdische Geschichte (6th ed.; Berlin: de Gruyter, 1921); and other print and online publications, these resources are (2) a combined volume containing Albert Eichhorn, Das Abend- certain to shape and inform biblical studies significantly mahl im Neuen Testament (Leipzig: Mohr Siebeck, 1898), and in the years to come. Hugo Greßmann, Albert Eichhorn und die religionsgeschichtliche In addition to publishing its own journals, books, and Schule (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1914). online resources, SBL Publications also has formed fruitful alliances with various partners, all with a view to fostering Studia Philonica The SBL has also welcomed the Studia Philonica Annual biblical scholarship (see page 4). For example, every SBL and the Studia Philonica Monograph Series into its publication book is co-published by Brill Academic Publishers, and a program. The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly jour- growing number of Brill titles are available as SBL paperback nal devoted to advancing the study of Hellenistic Judaism, in editions. Further, the SBL distributes titles published in particular of the writings and thought of the great Hellenistic- the Brown Judaic Studies series and now serves as the Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (ca. 15 b.c.e.–ca. 50 c.e.). The North American distributor for Sheffield Phoenix Press. first SBL edition of the Studia Philonica Annual appears at this Last but certainly not least, the SBL has partnered with year’s Annual Meeting with a striking new cover design. The HarperCollins in years past to produce a number of Society also looks forward to publishing the new Studia Philon- indispensable reference volumes, including the recently ica Monograph Series in the near future. released revised edition of the HarperCollins Study Bible. In short, through its own publications and its many Society of Biblical Literature Commentary on the partnerships (see page 4), the SBL has set itself apart from Septuagint In conjunction with the International Organization for other learned societies by maintaining a vital, vigorous Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS), the SBL will pub- publications program for 125 years. We invite you to lish a new series of commentaries on the Septuagint based on join our celebration as we reflect on past achievements, the Greek text as articulated in the New English Translation of especially as we honor and give thanks for the contributions the Septuagint (NETS). The SBLCS will differ from other Sep- of our various authors, editors, and volunteer leaders, and tuagint commentary series by focusing on the translation at its as we dare to imagine what exciting, discipline-shaping point of origin. That is, the SBLCS will take the Septuagint seri- developments lie just over the horizon. ously as a translation in order to attempt to determine what the translator was doing when he was translating. To that end, commentaries in the SBLCS will adhere Three New Book Series to five guiding principles: the original text as the basis for interpretation; the original meaning of the text as the goal of interpretation; the parent text as the pri- Three new series have been added to mary context for interpretation; the text the SBL lineup within the last fifteen itself as the only source for determin- months. Longest serving JBL ing a translator’s intent; and the wider editor = Morton S. Enslin, History of Biblical Studies Greek-language corpus as the sole basis for identifying normal (and abnormal) Under the leadership of editors 1960–1969 Greek constructions. In keeping with Leo G. Perdue (Old Testament/Hebrew 2 SBL 2006 these five principles, each SBLCS volume will, in addition to editors, authors, and readers for enabling us to foster biblical addressing standard introductory issues, offer a detailed com- scholarship by publishing the leading journal in the field. mentary on individual pericopes, including a summary of a pericope’s contents, discussion of interpretive questions per- taining to the entire passage, bibliography, a critical edition Review of Biblical Literature of the Greek text, a Hebrew text, the NETS translation, and a verse-by-verse commentary on the pericope. The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL) remains not only the SBL’s most widely distributed online publication but also the premier source of biblical studies book reviews in the world. Journal of Biblical Literature Since the 2005 Annual Meeting, RBL has published 475 new reviews of recently published books and electronic resources, Under the leadership of editors Gail R. O’Day (2000–2005) a feat unmatched in terms of quantity and timeliness by any and James C. VanderKam (2006–), as well as members of the other biblical studies resource.
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