Special issue of The Journal of Ancient Judaism

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The Journal of Ancient Judaism invites submissions for a special issue devoted to Jews in the ancient Mediterranean, outside the land of Israel and its environs, from the early fourth to the early seventh centuries. We particularly invite articles that identify and interrogate evidence for Jews and Jewish communities in localized geographic areas, asking a range of evidentiary, historical, and historiographic questions. We welcome work about their social networks, including communications and relations between such communities, as well as investigations of their location within the larger late antique and early medieval Mediterranean. We especially encourage contributions that combine engagement with historiographic and theoretical concerns with the surviving evidence, including material evidence.

We invite submission both of completed manuscripts and of detailed proposals (500-750 words). All articles will be peer-reviewed according to the Journal’s usual practices. Completed manuscripts may be no longer than 7500 words, including footnotes. The Journal will consider including images as space permits.

Please email all proposals, as both Word docs and PDFs, to Maxine Grossman (mgrossma@umd.edu) and to Ross Kraemer (Ross_Kraemer@brown.edu) no later than August 1. Completed manuscripts are due by June 1, 2015. Authors with questions about the suitability of particular topics are welcome to email Ross Kraemer, guest editor of the issue.

Style and formatting should follow the guidelines found on the JAJ website (http://www.v-r.de/en/magazine-2-2/journal_of_ancient_judaism-500060/#section_ausfuhrliche_informationen), and on the back of any issue of JAJ. Hebrew text must be in the SBL Hebrew font, while Greek text may be in any unicode font.

The issue is currently planned to appear in 2016.

From Maxine Grossman.