I just submitted my first article for publication in an academic journal. I have spent a lot of time lately turning chapter 4 of my M.A. thesis in a single coherent article. I had my wife, and then a professional proofreader (one of the advantages of working for a publishing company) read it over. It's called "The Economic Significance of the Temple Incident for Mark’s First-Century
Community: Mark 11:11,15-19."
I'm pretty nervous. I just sent to to James Vanderkam today. He is the editor of Journal of Biblical Literature. JBL is a big time journal and I'm not sure if this will be good enough but i have 2 friends published in JBL so why not. I'm submitting to JBL because i wrote it using the SBL style guide and it would be a pain to change it into the format for Biblica. I guess if they reject it, I'll try Biblica next.
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Hey Dana,
The Paper was first-class in my opinion. It was well documented, broke new ground and was interesting, which is important.
Thank you Steve. Let's hope the editors of JBL feel the same way.
That's good to hear. I'm pretty self concious about my writing. I hope it is a valid topic because that paper is the culmination of about 2 years of research in the psycho-dynamics of the oral thought world, peasant economies, and I spent way too long (around a month) in Egyptian loan papyri for what is really only 1 foot note.
I was out of academics for a while and mostly reading fiction and graphic novels. It has felt good these past few months to get back into it. I might try to push out another paper either on the cursing of the fig tree, Mark's interweaving technique (Markan Sandwich) as an oral mnemonic device, or one on a method for interpreting oral texts.
Thank's for reading it.
I have a paper I am sitting on as well. My Narative Criticism prof wants me to publish it but it is out of my intended field and it probably needs a little work which I am not really interested in doing. (Although if I do go ahead with you I might call on your LXX skills).
I know what you mean. I wrote a paper for an LXX class comparing the literary differences (Plot, Characterization, and Point of View) between the MT and LXX of Job 1-2 that I'm very proud of and I think is publishable. But I don't want to have a paper published on LXX and translation theory when I'm trying to get into schools to study Mark.
Dana, could you post the paper or send me a copy?
Hi I emailed you a copy. I'm not sure how to post a file.
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