Abrahamic-Israelite and associated religions

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES & MISCELLANY  

SELECT URLs/ Web data for  Biblical Studies -- Judaism and Christianity, etc

• Biblical Studies on the Web =  http://www.bsw.org/

• Biblica -- general Index = http://www.bsw.org/?l=713

• Contra Mundum ("Against the World") = http://www.visi.com/~contra_m/cm/

• Harvard Theological Review (contents) http://www.hds.harvard.edu/htr/recent.html

• History of Religions, Chicago (Contents) http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/HR/toc.html

• Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/  See also : http://www.gorgiaspress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv

 

 

 

Middle East, Islamic Studies..

• Bulletin of ASOR: http://www.asor.org/pubs/basor/basor.html

• al-Tawhid, A Quarterly Journal of Islamic Thought & Culture

• URL to the Shi`i magazine al-Tawhid = http://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/

• EJOS = http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/anpt/ejos/ejos-2.html  EJOS is published by the Department of Arabic, Persian and Turkic Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University.

• http://www.compactmemory.rwth-aachen.de/cm2/html/

New Books of Interest in Religious Studies

Motzki, Harald (ed)

• The Biography of Muhammad : the issue of the sources. Leiden + Boston, MA : E. J.Brill, 2000. xvi, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm (Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; v. 32) 

• Life of Muhammad and the Islamic self-image / Uri Rubin -- Sīra and Tafsīr / Marco Schöller -- Sīra and the question of tradition / Andrien Leites -- Mūsā  a b. / Gregor Schoeler -- Sīirat Ahl al-Kisā / Maher Jarrar -- Did the Quraysh conclude a treaty with the Ansār prior to the Hijra / Michael Leckner -- Murder of Ibn Abī-Huqayq / Harald Motzki -- Historical tradition about al-Hudaybiya / Andreas Görke -- Earliest Christian writings on Muhammad / Robert G. Hoyland -- Muhammad in the Qur'ān / Andrew Rippin

• A fascinating and very important book with a superb introduction.

• Torijano, P., Solomon the Esoteric King: From King to Magus, Development of a Tradition (JSJSup, 73),; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.  xiv + 333pp.. HB, Euros 104.00/, $121.00. ISBN 90-04-11941-8.

• Stone, M., Adam’s Contract with Satan: The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.  194 pp.+ 10 photos. HB $39.95. ISBN 0-253-33902-

Daftary, Farhad & Josef W. Meri (Eds.)

• Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam, Essays in Memory of Wilfred Madelung. London: Institute of Isma'ili Studies +, New York: I. B. Tauris, 432 pp (+433-464 = selected Bibliography and index). ISBN 186064 859 2 HB.