Your trip to Israel is just around the corner, so if—by some slim chance—you have time to do some extra reading before you go, check out the Journal of Hebrew Scripture.
Access the journal’s articles here: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/index.html
It is open access, and while the search features are not advanced, you search full-text or through the xml files. The journal is also peer-reviewed. You can also sort the list of browsable articles by author, title, volume, or year. Click the down arrow button next to the title to view the abstract.
Here’s a sampling of articles:
- The Shattered Dream. The Prophecies of Joel: A Bridge between Ezekiel and Haggai?
- “Some Worthless and Reckless Fellows”: Landlessness and Parasocial Leadership in Judges
- To Create, to Separate or to Construct: An Alternative for a Recent Proposal as to the Interpretation of ברא in Gen 1:1–2:4a
- Observations on Judah's Social and Economic History and the Dating of the Laws in Deuteronomy
- Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism
- The Noun אִישׁ ('îš) in Biblical Hebrew: A Term of Affiliation
- Keeping It Literal: The Economy of the Song of Songs
- Why Does Eleazar Sprinkle the Red Cow Blood? Making Sense of a Biblical Ritual
Enjoy!