Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Biblical Studies
The last twenty years have witnessed some remarkable achievements in the study of early Jewish literature. Given the ever-increasing number and availability of primary sources for these writings, specialists have been producing text-critical, historical, social scientific, and theological studies which, in turn, have fuelled a growing interest among scholars, students, religious leaders, and the wider public. The only English journal of its kind, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha was founded in 1987 to provide a much-needed forum for scholars to discuss and review most recent developments in this burgeoning field in the academy.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsps
The last twenty years have witnessed some remarkable achievements in the study of early Jewish literature. Given the ever-increasing number and availability of primary sources for these writings, specialists have been producing text-critical, historical, social scientific, and theological studies which, in turn, have fuelled a growing interest among scholars, students, religious leaders, and the wider public. The only English journal of its kind, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha was founded in 1987 to provide a much-needed peer-reviewed forum for scholars to discuss and review most recent developments in this burgeoning field in the academy.
| Kelley Coblentz Bautch | St. Edward’s University, USA |
| Matthew Goff | Florida State University, USA |
| Patricia Ahearne-Kroll | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Joseph Angel | Yeshiva University, USA |
| Daniel Assefa | Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia |
| Ashley Bacchi | Starr King School for the Ministry, USA |
| Francis Borchardt | NLA University College, Norway |
| Tom de Bruin | Radboud University, Netherlands |
| Randall D Chesnutt | Malibu, CA, USA |
| John J Collins | New Haven, CT, USA |
| Nóra Dávid | University of Szeged, Hungary |
| Magdalena Diaz Araujo | National University of La Rioja, Argentina |
| Henryk Drawnel | John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland |
| Elena Dugan | Phillips Academy Andover, USA |
| Ariel Feldman | Brite Divinity School, USA |
| Jill Hicks Keeton | University of Southern California, USA |
| Alexander Kulik | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| John R Levison | Seattle, WA, USA |
| Liv Ingeborg Lied | Oslo, Norway |
| Atar Livneh | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
| Daniel Machiela | University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA |
| Patrick Pouchelle | Centre Sèvres-Paris, France |
| Michael E. Stone | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Chontel Syfox | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Benjamin G. Wold | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| Archie T. Wright | Virginia Beach, VA, US |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha publishes original research articles and reviews that match the journal’s aims and scope.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha adheres to a peer review process in which the reviewer's name is routinely withheld from the author unless the reviewer requests a preference for their identity to be revealed.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
2.3.1 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance”).
It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.3 Open access and author archiving
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha uses footnotes Social-science style is to be employed, and information must include the place and name of publishers, complete page numbers of articles, subtitles of books, and any series to which a book belongs. Bibliographical references in the body of the essay should not be footnoted but included in the main text:
e.g. (Brown 1995)
(Brown 1995c)
(Brown 1995: 23-25)
(Brown 1995: 230 n.2)
(Brown 1995: Pl.10)
(Brown 1995: Ch.3)
(Brown 1995: II, 231)
(Brown 1995: vol.2) [if the whole volume is being referred to]
(BDB, 61) [no colon is used if no date is given]
Several works by the same author are cited by date only, the dates being separated by commas; when the page numbers are given, the year dates are separated by semicolons:
(Jones 1963, 1972a, 1986)
(Jones 1963a: 10; 1972; 1986: 123)
(Jones 1963a; 1972a: 156; Smith 1982)
Footnotes may be used in author-date style, especially if there is too much material to include conveniently within the text without breaking up its flow.
The example below shows the form of the footnote if the author-date reference is included in a sentence:
Smith (1982: 145) should be consulted for details.
Bibliographical layout is as follows:
Jones, A. 1980 On Consistency (Harvard Bibliographic Series, 9; 2 vols.;Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2nd edn).
Second Thoughts on Consistency (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
1986a'Second Thoughts: An Addendum', Journal of Bibliographic Research 30: 12-21.
1986b'Second Thoughts: A Further Addendum', Journal of Bibliographic Research 30: 332-45.
Green, W.S. (ed.) 1981 Approaches to Ancient Judaism (BJS, 9; Chico, CA: Scholars Press).
Lichtenberg, H., and P. Smith 1980 'Atonement and Sacrifice in the Qumran Community', in W.S. Green (ed.), Approaches to Ancient Judaism (BJS, 9; Chico, CA: Scholars Press): 159-71.
Charlesworth, James H. (ed.) 1983, 1985 The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (2 vols.; London: Darton, Longman & Todd).
The order of entries is by year; if there is more than one item from the same year, the dates are labelled a, b, c, etc. (e.g. 1963a, 1963b).
The original date of publication of a volume may be included in square brackets after the new date, e.g.: Weiss, Meir 1984 [1962] The Bible from Within: The Method of Total Interpretation (Jerusalem: Magnes).
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you carefully read and adhere to all the guidelines and instructions to authors provided below. Manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
All manuscripts submitted for publication in JSP should be in grammatical, idiomatic English, consistently employing gender-inclusive language. They should be delivered as a Microsoft Word file (or, if in WordPerfect, in RTF), using the prescribed fonts (see below for more information) for any text in Hebrew or Greek or transliterations of these languages.
Files should be complete, including all necessary bibliographical details, illustrations, maps, charts and tables and the text double-spaced.
Submitted articles should be sent as email attachments to Loren.Stuckenbruck@lmu.de, or posted on a Diskette, zip disk or CD-Rom to Prof. Dr. Loren Stuckenbruck, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München, GERMANY, addressed to The Editor, JSP. A short abstract of 50-150 words and up to five keywords MUST be supplied with your article.
Headings
You should ensure that you are consistent in their scheme of levels of headings.
We normally have three levels of headings and we ask that authors should follow this, where possible.
Spelling
Either British spelling (for British and non-American contributors) or American spelling (for American contributors only) should be used. Please do not mix spelling conventions.
Note also the following conventions: judgment, acknowledgment, abridgment,
etc.; -ize rather than -ise, except in the case of certain words that must be spelled (in British spelling) with -ise e.g. advertise, compromise, enterprise, prise, advise, exercise.
Abbreviations
True abbreviations should end with a full-stop (period), but contractions should not: e.g. repr.; but edn, Mr, Jr, etc. Plural abbreviations are not regarded as contractions. Thus: chs., eds., etc. Common abbreviations such as ms, rsv, bc, ad, should not be punctuated (we prefer BCE, CE). State names are PA, CT, etc. A reference list of house style abbreviations for journals and for biblical and non-biblical sources can be found on this web page.
Biblical Abbreviations
When quoting biblical references, please give full chapter and verse numbers (do not use ff.).
Gen., Exod., Lev., Num., Deut., Josh., Judg., Ruth, 1 Sam., 2 Sam., 1 Kgs, 2 Kgs, 1 Chron., 2 Chron., Ezra, Neh., Ps., (pl Pss.), Prov., Eccl. (or Qoh.), Song (or Cant.), Isa., Jer., Lam., Ezek., Dan., Hos., Joel, Amos, Obad., Jon., Mic., Nah., Hab., Zeph., Hag., Zech., Mal.
Mt., Mk., Lk., Jn, Acts, Rom., 1 Cor., 2 Cor., Gal., Eph., Phil., Col., 1 Thess., 2 Thess., 1 Tim., 2 Tim., Tit., Phlm., Heb., Jas., 1 Pet., 1 Jn, 2 Jn, 2 Jn, Jude, Rev.
Punctuation and Style
The opening paragraph under a heading should begin flush with the left margin.
Quotations should be enclosed in single quotation marks, double quotation marks being used for quotations within a quoted sentence. A closing quote comes before the closing punctuation of a sentence unless the sentence began within the quotation. For example, Jones maintains that 'there is no case for a "Son of Man" title in Judaism. It rests on a misunderstanding.' Quotations should follow the exact form of the original, including, for example, spellings, punctuation and style of citation for biblical texts even if they deviate from SAP house style. Any material inserted into the quotation by the author citing the material is to be included within square brackets, round brackets (parentheses) being reserved for parenthetical material within the quotation itself.
For possessives of proper names ending in s or another sibilant, add 's, e.g. Childs's Introduction, Jones's views (exceptions: ancient and modern names ending in an 'eez' sound, such as Sophocles').
Roman numerals should normally be used only for volume numbers of modern books (numbers of journal issues should be Arabic).
Foreign words and phrases, except very common ones, should be italicized: thus redaktionsgeschichtlich, enfant terrible, but e.g., per se, etc.
In sequences of biblical and bibliographical references, chapter and book divisions should be marked by a semi-colon:
Gen. 3.1, 7, 8; 14.6; 24.4; Exod. 3.17; etc.
The words chapter and verse in biblical references are abbreviated to ch. (chs.) and v. (vv.), except at the beginning of a sentence, where they should be written out in full.
Fonts and Foreign Languages
Please use the fonts available on the SBL website (ftp:/ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/).
These are SPTiberian for Hebrew, SPIonic for Greek, SPAtlantis for transliteration and SPEdessa for Syriac. These fonts are free, publicly available and suitable for either Macs or PCs.
A consistent policy regarding Hebrew and Greek should be employed: i.e. either transliteration according to house style or the use of Hebrew and Greek fonts. Please keep any use of Hebrew/Greek/Syriac words to the minimum necessary. Greek should be accented, but Hebrew does not need pointing unless this is vital to the sense. Check for quotations from other languages (e.g. German, French): if these are in the main text, a translation is needed, either to replace the original, or as a footnote where the original is retained.
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. In addition, SAGE is partnered with Kudos, a free service that allows authors to explain, enrich, share, and measure the impact of their article. Find out how to maximise your article’s impact with Kudos.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha editorial office as follows:
Email: Loren.Stuckenbruck@lmu.de