Over at Awilum.com, Charles discusses the new journal Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (HeBAI). Like many others, he correctly has considerable praise for it. But he also has a few problems: “Why is it that it must cost this much?” “Lastly, do we really need another journal?” Both of these are good questions. Please read Charles’ post; he makes several abnormally interesting points.
In the course of his discussion, Charles mentions the open access Journal of Hebrew Scriptures and SBL’s Ancient Near East Monograph series. My own question concerning HeBAI is, why is it a print journal at all? I discussed this issue the other day when I mentioned a journal proposed by De Gruyter and the Association of Ancient Historians.