The first post in this series
focused on journals that would be beneficial to Christians in general, for any
kind of research (e.g., gathering background info for your Sunday School
lesson), while highlighting those available for free on-line. The second post
focused on journals that grad students should be familiar with, depending upon
their field of study, once again pointing out what was available on-line.
Finally, this section will mention more obscure, foreign language journals that
doctoral students might need to consult (at least 3 of these journals were
cited in my own dissertation/forthcoming book). Please note that archive.org
can be helpful as far as viewing older, public domain issues of some of the
more long-lived journals.
One final comment. It goes
without saying that doctoral students need to be citing foreign language sources in their papers, and quite a few
foreign language articles and essays (but especially articles) should show up
in his or her dissertation. You don’t have to be a genius to do this, but just
persistent (working with a foreign language source would take me a lot
more time than working with an equivalent English source, and it’s not like I
was reading anything from start to finish, either!) Nevertheless, doctoral
students need to be familiar with all significant research on their topic, not
just what’s readable in their own language.
1. Archive für die
Reformationsgeschichte. Website: click here. Not
available for free. Interestingly, however, older issues are viewable for free
at archive.org (click here).
3. Biblische Zeitschrift. I struggled finding the actual website for this
journal (might work on it later), but older issues may be viewable at
archive.org, here.
4.
Foi et Vie. Website
is here. Could not find any options to view past
issues.
5.
Kerygma und Dogma.
I don’t think I found the home website per se, but past issues
may be purchased here.
6.
Revue des sciences religieuses. Excellent! Full text issues are
available up through 2009 (as of the time of this post). Go here.
7.
Revue d’histoire et de philosopie religieuses. Click here. In a reversal of the norm, articles since (not before)
2002 are available for free.
8. Zeitschrift fur die
neutestamentliche wissenschaft. Click
here. Articles must be purchased, but
older issues may be viewable for free at archive.org (click here).
9. Zeitschrift fur die
alttestamentliche wissenschaft. Click
here. Same as above, articles must
be purchased, but older articles viewable for free at archive.org (click here).
