Update — 12 October 2026: The conference programme has been expanded to five days, 6–10 November 2026, live online via Zoom. Earlier dated announcements below retain the previously announced dates; the current programme is available on the official conference website.
09 September 2026 The programme of the European Hebrew Journal International Scholarly Online Conference 2026 continues to expand with three newly confirmed invited speakers whose research brings together biblical archaeology, Biblical Hebrew, historical linguistics, and digital education.
The conference, New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies, will take place 6–10 November 2026 live online via Zoom, bringing together more than 60 international scholars and researchers across Biblical Studies, Hebrew language and linguistics, archaeology, ancient history, theology, manuscript studies, Jewish Studies, digital humanities, and related fields.
Participants can attend the sessions live, join Q&A discussions, and receive 12 months of access to conference recordings.
Register to attend:
https://conference.hebrew.edu.rs/#tickets
Prof. Gary A. Byers, Dean of the College of Archaeology at Trinity Southwest University and Co-Director of the Shiloh Excavations for Associates for Biblical Research (ABR), will present:
10 November 2026 at 16:00 CET
The Amarna Letters represent one of the most important collections of written evidence for understanding the political world of Late Bronze Age Canaan.
Written primarily in Akkadian and preserved on cuneiform tablets, the correspondence provides extraordinary evidence for relations between Egypt, the Canaanite city-states, and other political powers of the ancient Near East.
Byers will examine the Amarna correspondence, the groups described as Ḫabiru, the structure of the Canaanite city-state system, and the wider historical environment relevant to discussions of the biblical Book of Joshua.
With decades of archaeological field experience in Israel and Jordan, including major involvement at Shiloh and other important archaeological sites, Byers brings archaeological, historical, and textual evidence together in this exploration of the biblical world of Canaan.
Read Prof. Byers's full abstract, biography, research profile and conference presentation page:
https://conference.hebrew.edu.rs/presentations/gary-byers-tabernacle-shiloh/
Dr. Carlo Yehuda Meloni, M.A., Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Passau, will present:
9 November 2026 at 10:00 CET
How was the Biblical Hebrew consonant resh (ר) actually pronounced?
Meloni's research addresses one of the fascinating problems of Biblical Hebrew historical phonology: reconstructing the pronunciation of a consonant in an ancient language for which no sound recordings can exist.
Drawing on historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, comparative Semitic evidence, linguistic typology, quantitative analysis, and ancient transcriptions of Hebrew, his research examines the phonetic history of resh and argues for its reconstruction as an alveolar tap /ɾ/ during an important stage of Biblical Hebrew.
Meloni completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Zurich and previously earned his M.A. and B.A. in Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. His M.A. thesis, The Reš Riddle: Identifying the Biblical Hebrew Rhotic, provides the scholarly foundation for this area of his research.
Explore Dr. Meloni's biography, academic background, research expertise and presentation page:
https://conference.hebrew.edu.rs/presentations/carlo-yehuda-meloni
Dr. Adam J. Howell, Associate Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Boyce College / The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, will present:
6 November 2026 at 23:00 CET
Howell is widely known as the host and primary contributor of Daily Dose of Hebrew, an international digital initiative helping students, pastors, and readers maintain regular engagement with the Hebrew Bible.
His presentation will explore what years of digital Biblical Hebrew teaching reveal about audience engagement, short-form education, social media, online biblical-language pedagogy, and the opportunities and limitations of bringing serious Hebrew study to digital audiences.
Read Dr. Howell's full biography, presentation overview, research profile and selected publications:
https://conference.hebrew.edu.rs/presentations/adam-howell/
These three presentations illustrate the interdisciplinary character of the conference.
From archaeological and cuneiform evidence for Late Bronze Age Canaan, through the historical pronunciation of Biblical Hebrew, to the digital teaching of the Hebrew Bible, EHJ 2026 brings together scholars using very different methods to address fundamental questions about Scripture, Hebrew language, ancient history, archaeology, and interpretation.
The full five-day programme includes more than 60 scholarly sessions, with presentations by archaeologists, linguists, biblical scholars, theologians, historians, manuscript specialists, and researchers from institutions across Europe, Israel, North America, and beyond.
Because the conference is fully online, participants can join from anywhere in the world.
Registration includes:
access to the live Zoom conference from 6–10 November 2026
participation in live Q&A sessions
access to the conference recordings for 12 months
View the full programme:
https://conference.hebrew.edu.rs/#programme
Register to attend:
https://conference.hebrew.edu.rs/#tickets
Participation in the conference also directly supports the European Hebrew Journal, an international Diamond Open Access scholarly journal. Conference income helps EHJ remain free for authors and freely accessible to readers, without article-processing charges or subscription barriers.
European Hebrew Journal:
Conference website:
https://conference.hebrew.edu.rs/
Reserve your place:
https://conference.hebrew.edu.rs/#tickets
Following strong international interest from scholars, universities, academic organizations, and participants around the world, the European Hebrew Journal International Scholarly Online Conference 2026 — New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies — has been expanded to a full five-day programme, running from 6 to 10 November 2026.
The expanded programme now includes more than 60 confirmed international speakers and more than 60 scholarly sessions, making the conference substantially larger than originally planned.
The five-day programme brings together researchers working across Biblical Studies, Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew, biblical archaeology, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple Judaism, manuscript traditions and textual criticism, Jewish Studies, early Christianity, theology, ancient history, linguistics, digital humanities, and new applications of artificial intelligence and computational methods to the study of ancient texts.
The conference will take place live online via Zoom, with live discussion and Q&A, while registered participants will also receive 12 months of access to the conference recordings.
The expansion from the original programme to five full days reflects the unusually broad international response to the conference and the number and range of high-quality scholarly contributions that have been confirmed.
The conference has also attracted increasing attention from media outlets, universities, professional societies, biblical organizations, archaeological projects, and academic dissemination platforms in several countries.
Independent media coverage has appeared through the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), which reported on the five-day programme from 6–10 November, as well as OzonPress and BALKAN TV in Serbia.
The conference has also been publicly announced or featured by the SOBICAIN — International Catholic Biblical Society, the Department of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), Archaeological Projects and Discussions, the Hippos–Sussita Excavations Project, medievalJewishStudiesNow!, and the international academic conference-discovery platform CFPList.
These external announcements complement the growing international network of organizations assisting the conference through co-sponsorship, institutional dissemination, academic outreach, professional cooperation, and distribution.
The conference is currently supported by an expanding group of academic and professional organizations, including the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania as Co-Sponsor, the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH), De Gruyter Brill, and SOBICAIN — International Catholic Biblical Society.
Institutional and academic dissemination support is also being provided by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens — Department of Theology, the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Commission for Theological Education in the Anglican Communion (CTEAC), Charles University — Protestant Theological Faculty, Palacký University Olomouc — Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, and the New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
Additional academic dissemination is being provided through Archaeological Projects and Discussions and medievalJewishStudiesNow!, while the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Belgrade provides organizational support.
The different forms of support reflect the conference’s increasingly broad scholarly reach. They should not be understood as implying a single form of partnership or endorsement: participating organizations contribute through distinct arrangements including co-sponsorship, dissemination, professional networking, academic visibility, and organizational cooperation.
To make the programme accessible to a wider international audience, the conference website has also begun expanding its multilingual presentation.
In addition to the main English-language conference website, dedicated pages are now available in Spanish and Serbian/Croatian, reflecting the increasingly international audience following the conference.
Further international dissemination is continuing through academic networks, universities, scholarly societies, media outlets, and partner organizations.
The final expanded conference will take place:
6–10 November 2026
Live Online via Zoom
60+ confirmed international speakers
60+ scholarly sessions
Live Q&A
12 months of recording access
The full and continually updated programme is available through the EHJ Conference Programme, while registration information is available through the conference registration page.
The conference is organized in connection with the European Hebrew Journal, whose Diamond Open Access model keeps scholarly articles freely accessible to readers and does not charge authors publication fees. Conference activity contributes to sustaining the journal’s long-term editorial, technical, and dissemination infrastructure.
17 August 2026
The European Hebrew Journal is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 1, Issue 2 (2026).
This second issue continues the journal’s commitment to rigorous, international, interdisciplinary scholarship in Hebrew studies and in the many fields that intersect with the Hebrew language, the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history, biblical studies, linguistics, theology, textual studies, translation, cultural history, and related disciplines.
The publication of Volume 1, Issue 2 marks another important step in the development of the European Hebrew Journal during its inaugural year. As a Diamond Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal, EHJ remains committed to making scholarly research freely accessible to readers worldwide while charging no publication fees to authors.
We warmly thank all authors, reviewers, academic editors, members of the Editorial Board, and colleagues whose scholarship, time, and support made this issue possible.
Read Volume 1, Issue 2 (2026):
https://ehj.hebrew.edu.rs/index.php/european-hebrew-journal/issue/view/vol1-no2-2026
European Hebrew Journal
Published by the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Belgrade, Serbia
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European Hebrew Journal Announces International Scholarly Conference, 6–9 November 2026
14 August 2026
The European Hebrew Journal is pleased to announce the international scholarly online conference New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies, which will take place 6–9 November 2026, live online via Zoom.
Bringing together more than 30 scholars and researchers from universities and academic institutions around the world, the conference will present recent discoveries, new research, and emerging scholarly directions across Biblical Studies, Hebrew Studies, theology, archaeology, ancient history, Jewish Studies, Old and New Testament research, Qumran studies, textual studies, and the application of artificial intelligence to contemporary biblical and Hebrew research.
Due to exceptional interest from both invited scholars and prospective attendees, the originally announced three-day programme has now been expanded with an official additional fourth conference day on 9 November 2026.
The complete and continuously updated Conference Programme provides information about confirmed speakers, presentation times, institutional affiliations, and presentation topics.
Among the conference themes are new archaeological discoveries connected with biblical sites, developments in the study of Hebrew and ancient Jewish texts, the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, Jewish–Christian relations, theological interpretation, manuscript and textual research, the Dead Sea Scrolls, historical reconstruction, and new digital and AI-assisted research methodologies.
The conference is intended not only for scholars presenting research but also for university professors, lecturers, students, researchers, clergy, teachers, and other professionally interested participants who wish to follow current developments in international Biblical, Hebrew, Jewish, and theological scholarship.
All presentations will be delivered in English. Registered participants will be able to attend the sessions live via Zoom, participate in Q&A discussions with the speakers, and receive 12 months of access to recordings of the conference presentations.
Participants who had already registered for the originally announced dates of 6–8 November will automatically receive access to the additional conference day on 9 November at no additional cost, including access to recordings from all four conference days.
Both individual and institutional/group participation options are available. Full information about registration can be found on the Conference Registration and Tickets section of the official website.
The conference is organized in connection with the academic mission of the European Hebrew Journal and the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Belgrade, Serbia, with the aim of creating an international forum for presenting significant new research and facilitating scholarly exchange across disciplines and academic traditions.
Researchers, students, academic institutions, theological faculties, research centres, libraries, scholarly societies, and other interested organizations are warmly invited to explore the full programme and join the conference in November.
Conference: New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies
Dates: 6–9 November 2026
Format: Live Online via Zoom
Programme: View the full programme
Registration: Individual and group registration
Journal: European Hebrew Journal
14 August 2026
The European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) has received confirmation that linguistically relevant articles published in the journal will be indexed in Linguistic Bibliography.
Following a formal request submitted by the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, the editorial team of Linguistic Bibliography confirmed that it will begin indexing EHJ articles that fall within its subject scope.
This includes research in areas such as Hebrew language studies, Biblical Hebrew, Semitic linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, lexicography, philology, textual criticism, and manuscript studies.
The inclusion represents another important step in strengthening the international visibility and scholarly discoverability of the European Hebrew Journal.
Because the coverage is selective, only articles relevant to the scope of Linguistic Bibliography will be indexed. The indexing process has been confirmed, while individual records may take some time to appear in the database.
The European Hebrew Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, diamond open-access scholarly journal published by the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Belgrade, Serbia.
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17 July 2026.
The Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature has published interviews with two members of the Editorial Board of the European Hebrew Journal (EHJ): Professor Emanuel Tov and Dr. Nathaniel E. Greene.
Short excerpts from the interviews can be viewed on their dedicated pages, which also include links to the full interviews:
Professor Emanuel Tov:
https://hebrew.edu.rs/professor-emanul-tov-editorial-board-memmber-of-european-hebrew-journal/
Dr. Nathaniel E. Greene:
https://hebrew.edu.rs/dr-nathaniel-e-greene-editorial-board-member-of-european-hebrew-journal/
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10 July 2026. The European Hebrew Journal has been evaluated and accepted for indexing by CEEOL on 7 July 2026.
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10 July 2026. Belgrade, Serbia. Center and Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, European Hebrew Journal
New Interview with Professor Emanuel Tov Now Available on YouTube
The European Hebrew Journal is pleased to announce that a new interview with Professor Emanuel Tov, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Editorial Board of the European Hebrew Journal, is now available on YouTube.
The interview focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible, and biblical textual criticism. One of the central topics of the discussion is Professor Tov's recent scholarly monograph:
Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert, Revised Second Edition: Material Culture and Writing Practices in Modern Research (Brill, 2025; ISBN 9789004740693), a substantially revised edition of his classic handbook on the scribal practices reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The interview was conducted by Željko Stanojević, Editor-in-Chief of the European Hebrew Journal and Director of the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature (Belgrade, Serbia).
Watch the interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deOjitb9rcc
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5 June 2026. Belgrade, Serbia. Center and Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, European Hebrew Journal
Volume 1, Issue 1 Published: 5 June 2026. View Volume 1, Issue 1
Volume 1, Issue 2 Expected: August 2026
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The European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) invites original scholarly submissions for Volume 2, Issue 1 (2027) and welcomes contributions from university faculty, researchers, independent scholars, and doctoral candidates worldwide.
EHJ is an international peer-reviewed open access journal, published by the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, dedicated to rigorous interdisciplinary research in Hebrew studies, Jewish studies, philology, manuscript traditions, Semitic linguistics, theology, and related humanities disciplines.
The journal encourages submissions in areas including, but not limited to:
All submissions undergo rigorous double-blind peer review.
Researchers from all countries and institutions are invited to submit manuscripts.
Originally announced deadline: 30 September 2026.
Update — 12 October 2026: the final submission deadline has been extended to 15 October 2026. The Call for Papers closes after that date, with no further extensions.
Editorial Office:
office@hebrew.edu.rs
https://ehj.hebrew.edu.rs/index.php/european-hebrew-journal
We would greatly appreciate sharing this announcement with colleagues, universities, departments, research institutes, and academic communities interested in Hebrew studies, Jewish studies, Semitic linguistics, theology, philology, manuscript traditions, and interdisciplinary humanities research.
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Editorial Board Member |
Institution |
Expertise |
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Aaron Koller |
University of Cambridge |
Biblical Hebrew; Semitic Linguistics; Hebrew Philology; Hebrew Bible |
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Aaron D. Hornkohl |
University of Cambridge |
Historical Hebrew Linguistics; Textual Criticism; Biblical Hebrew Grammar; Dead Sea Scrolls |
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Giuseppe Veltri |
University of Hamburg |
Jewish Philosophy; Jewish Intellectual History; Medieval Judaism; Jewish Thought |
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Eckart Otto |
LMU Munich / Hochschule für Philosophie München |
Hebrew Bible; Pentateuch Studies; Ancient Israelite Religion; Biblical Archaeology |
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Emanuel Tov |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Textual Criticism; Dead Sea Scrolls; Septuagint Studies; Biblical Philology |
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Rivka Halevy |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Modern Hebrew; Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics |
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Menahem Kister |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Dead Sea Scrolls; Second Temple Judaism; Rabbinic Literature; Biblical Exegesis |
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Yaron Ben‑Naeh |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Ottoman Jewish History; Sephardic Studies; Jewish History; Cultural History |
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Amihai Mazar |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Biblical Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Iron Age Archaeology; Ancient Near East |
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Miriam Frenkel |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Medieval Jewish History; Cairo Geniza Studies; Judeo-Arabic Studies; Jewish-Muslim Relations |
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Jean‑Louis Ska |
Pontifical Biblical Institute |
Hebrew Bible; Pentateuch Studies; Biblical Exegesis; Biblical Theology |
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Christopher A. Rollston |
George Washington University |
Biblical Hebrew; Hebrew Epigraphy; Paleography; Semitic Philology |
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Phillip J. Long |
Grace Christian University |
Biblical Studies; New Testament; Second Temple Judaism; Ministry Studies |
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Bénédicte Lemmelijn |
KU Leuven |
Septuagint Studies; Textual Criticism; Hebrew Bible; Biblical Philology |
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Yael S. Feldman |
New York University |
Modern Hebrew Literature; Hebrew Culture; Comparative Literature; Cultural Memory |
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Hasia R. Diner |
New York University |
American Jewish History; Holocaust Studies; Diaspora Studies; Jewish Cultural History |
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Jay Winter |
Yale University |
Memory Studies; Modern European History; War and Society; Comparative Memory |
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Hannan Hever |
Yale University |
Hebrew Literature; Jewish Studies; Cultural Studies; Israeli Literature |
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Marcel Erdal |
Goethe University Frankfurt |
Turkic Studies; Historical Linguistics; Philology; Khazar Studies |
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Philip Wood |
Aga Khan University |
Early Islamic History; Syriac Christianity; Inter-Religious Studies; Late Antiquity |
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Antony Polonsky |
Brandeis University |
Holocaust Studies; East European Jewish History; Modern Jewish History; Jewish Culture |
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Shmuel Bolozky |
UMass Amherst |
Modern Hebrew; Hebrew Linguistics; Hebrew Morphology; Semitic Linguistics |
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Eyal Regev |
Bar‑Ilan University |
Second Temple Judaism; Qumran Studies; Jewish History; Archaeology |
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Aren M. Maeir |
Bar‑Ilan University |
Biblical Archaeology; Philistine Studies; Ancient Israel; Near Eastern Archaeology |
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Yigal Levin |
Bar‑Ilan University |
History of Biblical Israel; Historical Geography; Biblical Historiography; Archaeology |
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Avraham Faust |
Bar‑Ilan University |
Ancient Israel; Biblical Archaeology; Iron Age Archaeology; Historical Geography |
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Christian Frevel |
Ruhr University Bochum |
Hebrew Bible; Ancient Israel; Biblical Theology; Biblical Archaeology |
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Juan Manuel Tebes |
Catholic University of Argentina |
Ancient Near Eastern History; Biblical Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Yahwism |
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Wolfgang Zwickel |
University Mainz |
Hebrew Bible; Biblical Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Historical Geography |
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Giuseppe Motta |
Sapienza University of Rome |
Jewish History; Antisemitism Studies; Diaspora Studies; Ethnic Relations |
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Nathaniel E. Greene |
University of Aberdeen |
Biblical Hebrew; Epigraphy; Paleography; Ancient Near Eastern Studies |
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Oded Borowski |
Emory University |
Biblical Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Iron Age Studies; Historical Geography |
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Constantin Horia Oancea |
Lucian Blaga University |
Old Testament; Biblical Hermeneutics; Prophetic Literature; Septuagint |
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Susannah Heschel |
Dartmouth / Harvard Divinity School |
Jewish Studies; Jewish Intellectual History; Holocaust Studies; Interreligious Studies |
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Cyrill von Büttner |
Russian Academy of Sciences |
Classical Hebrew; Dead Sea Scrolls; Qumran Studies; Textual Criticism |
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Anita Fiket |
University of Zagreb |
Jewish Studies; Holocaust Studies; Cultural Heritage; Memory Studies |
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Steven M. Ortiz |
Lipscomb University |
Biblical Archaeology; Ancient Israel; Historical Geography; Hebrew Bible |
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Alexandra Palantza |
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
Biblical Theology; Hebrew Bible; Biblical Hermeneutics; Reception History |
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Nihad Hasan Al‑Shammary |
University of Wasit |
Hebrew Language; Samaritan Hebrew; Semitic Linguistics; Judeo-Arabic Studies |
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Željko Stanojević |
Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature |
Hebrew Language; Hebrew Onomastics; Biblical Names Etymology; Hebrew Lexicography |
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Mihajlo Anđelić |
Technical Editor |
Technical Editor |
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https://ehj.hebrew.edu.rs/index.php/european-hebrew-journal/Call-for-papers-Volume-2-Issue-1-2026-European-hebrew-Journal |
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The European Hebrew Journal applies double-blind review to research articles, review articles, and short communications, with at least two independent reviewers. Reviewers are normally external specialists. A qualified editor or Board member may review a highly specialised topic under the independence and conflict-of-interest safeguards in the Peer Review Policy.
The Editor-in-Chief may assign two Academic Editors when additional editorial expertise is needed. An Academic Editor handling or deciding a manuscript does not act as its formal reviewer. Reviewer identities remain confidential under the double-blind policy.
Editorial forewords and book reviews receive quality control appropriate to their type. Authors do not handle their own manuscripts, and a non-conflicted editor makes decisions where recusal is required.
European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) ISSN 3122-8879 (online), COBISS.SR-ID 195306505, 1602082250
An international peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to Hebrew language, Jewish studies, philology, theology, manuscript studies, history, linguistics, and interdisciplinary research related to Jewish cultures and traditions.
Publisher:
Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature
Registered publisher and organisational unit of the Center for Hebrew Language and Literature (legal entity)
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https://hebrew.edu.rs/
Editorial Office:
office@hebrew.edu.rs
Website:
ehj.hebrew.edu.rs
Journal Manager:
Željko Stanojević
ORCID: 0009-0009-0717-6184
ISSN: 3122-8879 online
All articles are published under an open access policy.
