BIBLICAL JOURNAL. - A journal of biblical studies published since 1903 by the Herder publishing house in Freiburg im Breisgau, in connection with the Biblische Studien, a series of monographs begun in 1896 under the direction of O. Bardenhewer. It was edited by Professors Göttsberger and Sickenberger and normally appeared in four issues each year until 1915. After overcoming the difficulties created by the First World War and its aftermath, it was reduced to one volume every two or three years, and with volume 19 (years 1930-31) it passed to another publisher (Schöningh, Paderborn) and another editorial board (Professors Walde and Freundorfer), continuing with the same program until its publication was suspended due to the Second World War. Its value lay less in its leading articles, however praiseworthy, than in its «Bibliographische Notizen» (which soon, due to their length, occupied the greater part of each volume), an orderly and meticulous list of current publications on biblical subjects, mostly with a brief summary of the content of each, and sometimes even a critical assessment: an extremely useful source of information, unequalled in its field to date. It is now thought that it may be revived.
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