Journal: Bulletin for Biblical Research
Volume: BBR 22:3 (NA 2012)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

BBR 22:3 (2012) p. 403

Book Reviews

William G. Hupper. An Index to English Periodical Literature on the Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Volume 9, parts 1–2. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2011. Pp. cliii + 569; xxxiii + 681. ISBN 978–0-8108–7805–1. $200.00 cloth.

The final volume of William Hupper’s extensive index for First Testament (FT) periodical literature was published in 2011. The first volume appeared in 1987, sixteen years after Hupper began collecting bibliographic information. This concluding volume contains the author, subject, foreign word, and citation indexes as well as corrections and additions for the previous eight volumes. Because of the ninth volume’s considerable size (1,250 pages excluding approx 190 pages of front matter), the volume is divided into two separate parts. Hupper’s entire index project was created with a fourfold purpose: (1) to collect all English periodical literature treating the FT from the first issue of a journal up until 1970; (2) to gather especially references for obscure, but important, periodicals; (3) to utilize a schema that allowed precision in defining subject headings narrowly; and (4) to include articles in English even if found in journals that are written predominantly in another language.

These indexes gather data from the first eight volumes of the project, which were divided into the following seven primary sections, with subsections.

1. Bibliographical Articles: General Studies (hereafter, G.S.; 1.1. Bibliographical Articles on the Old Testament; 1.2. Bibliographical Studies of Old Testament Persons).

2. Ancient Near Eastern Civilization: G.S. (2.1. Historiography and Ancient Near Eastern History: G.S.; 2.2. General History of the Nation of Israel; 2.3. Sociological Studies; Cultural Studies and Customs: G.S.; 2.4. Ancient Near Eastern History: G.S.; 2.5. Modern Scientific Studies on the Ancient Near East and Old Testament; 2.6. Assyriology: G.S.; 2.7. Egyptology: G.S.).

3. Critical Studies of the Old Testament (3.1. Textual Criticism: G.S.; 3.2. Literary Criticism of the Old Testament: G.S.; 3.3. Philosophical and Epigraphical Studies; 3.4. Exegetical Studies on the Old Testament: G.S.; 3.5. Critical and Exegetical Studies of Passages in Multiple Books of the Old Testament; 3.6. Studies on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: G.S.; 3.7. Studies on the Life and Works of Philo; 3.8. Studies on the Life and Works of Josephus; 3.9. Studies on the Life and Works of Hillel; 3.10. Rabbinical Studies and Writings; 3.11. Rabbinic Interpretation of the Bible; 3.12. Studies on the New Testament Apocrypha; 3.13. Studies on the Early Church Fathers; 3.14. Studies on the Early Commentaries on the Old Testament).

4. Ancient Near Eastern Literature: G.S. (4.1....