Research Guides: Ancient Israel: Scholarly Journal Articles

Main Indexes/Databases

RAMBI Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
RAMBI is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of the State of Israel. The Index is based to a large extent on the collections of the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem.

http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/infochannels/catalogs/bibliographic-databases/rambi/pages/rambi.aspx

While RAMBI and the Religion Index cover some of the same journals, there are sufficient differences to warrant that both be searched for comprehensive research on topics in the study of ancient Israel.

Religion Index
This database is maintained by ATLA (The American Theological Library Association) and covers the research literature of religion, from 1949 forward, in over 30 languages from 1,400 international journals and 16,500 multi-author works.
École Biblique et Archéologique Française
Indexes ca. more than 140,000 volumes and 400 specialized periodicals. A very useful discovery tool. In the results list click on the title link to get the citation, then search BobCat to find our whether we have the journal or book in electronic or print form.
Online Egyptological Bibliography
The Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) includes the volumes of the previous Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB) combined with the Bibliographie Altägypten (BA), covering Egyptological literature from 1822 to 2002, as well as partial treatment of 2003-2012.
Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne - BiBIL
Elenchus of Biblica
Online 1985-present.
We have 1968-71; 1979-1984 in the 9th floor Reference Center in Bobst under call number Z7770 .E63.
Tyndale House: Gateway for Biblical Research
Enormous collection of links to online primary and secondary resources on Biblical and Second Temple subjects. No short description can do justice to the variety and number of resources gathered here. A special note must be made of their “2 Letter Lookup” – an online dictionary which provides all possible Biblical words and their definitions on the basis of their first two letters so you do not have to worry about which letters form part of the root of the word. Available languages in this lexicon are: Hebrew/Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Akkadian and Arabic.

Some Journals to Browse

RBL - Review of Biblical Literature

TIP: getting from Citation to Full Text

Searching the Religion Index click on the NYU icon next to a citation to get options for full text. If full text is not available, which is often the case for older journal articles, click on the BobCat link, and search for a print version of the journal. If Bobst does not have a print subscription, request the article through Interlibrary Loan.

Since RAMBI does not have the NYU icon copy the journal title and search for full text through the Journals link. Follow the above steps, if full text is not available.