Journal Studia Biblica Slovaca
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A. About Studia Biblica Slovaca 1. Journal’s Characteristics 1. Studia Biblica Slovaca (hereafter StBiSl) is a peer-reviewed semi-annual scholarly periodical for exegetical, theological, philological and historical research of the Sacred Scripture of both the Old and the New Testaments. The scope is to publish only original, scientific and professional papers on knowledge generated by the latest research on biblical science. 2. StBiSl is a periodical especially for scholars of biblical exegesis and biblical theology, biblical linguistics, history and archaeology. StBiSl also welcomes submissions in biblical exegetical studies which are in the interdisciplinary dialogue with Christian theology, Judaic studies, patristic studies, liturgy, etc. All the articles published in StBiSl have to meet the criteria of scientific research. They have to be able to present an issue in a respectful scientific debate, to offer new findings on the respective issue and above all to offer an innovative solution to the issue. StBiSl also publishes a book review section. 3. StBiSl is issued twice a year. The manuscripts must be submitted by March 31st or September 30th. StBiSl does not publish the articles, their parts or their translations which have been previously published elsewhere or which are already under another review process. 4. The articles in StBiSl are published in Slovak, Czech or English. The Slovak and Czech authors can publish in English only if they are actually and verifiably engaged abroad. In particular cases, the Editorial Board (hereafter EB) can make an exception from the rule regarding the language of publishing and permit the publication of the articles, e.g., in German or Italian. 5. The formatting of the articles submitted to the StBiSl must follow the specific requirements of both this document and the StBiSl Bibliography and Citation Style (hereafter BCS). 6. Each manuscript submitted to StBiSl editor-in-chief (hereafter editor-in-chief) undergoes an anonymous peer review process by two independent reviewers from the Editorial Board. The author is given the result of the review report by editor-in-chief himself. 7. StBiSl Editorial Staff (hereafter ES) consists of: a. Editor-in-chief: Blažej Štrba (Badín, SK, 2014 – 2018), b. Deputy Editor: Jozef Jančovič (Bratislava, SK, 2012 – 2018), c. Review Editor: František Trstenský (Spišské Podhradie, SK, 2012 – 2018), d. Executive Editor: Martina Korytiaková (Rome, I, 2012 – 2018) and e. Editorial Board: Jaroslav BROŽ (Prague, CZ) – Juraj FENÍK (Košice, SK) – Júlia Daniela ISKROVÁ OP (Ružomberok, SK) – Róbert JÁGER (Košice, SK) – Peter JUHÁS (Münster, D) – Branislav KĽUSKA (Ružomberok, SK) – Róbert LAPKO (Košice, SK) – Libor MAREK (Detroit, USA) – Jaroslav RINDOŠ (Bratislava, SK) – Milan SOVA (Bratislava, SK) – Jozef TIŇO (Bratislava, SK) – Gabriela Ivana VLKOVÁ OP (Olomouc, CZ) (2014 – 2018) and other ex offo reviewers. 8. EB assembles twice a year and is convoked by the editor-in-chief. 9. StBiSl Scientific Board 2014 – 2018: Reimund BIERINGER (Leuven, B) – Georg BRAULIK OSB (Wien, A) – Peter DUBOVSKÝ SJ (Roma, I) – Pavol FARKAŠ (Nitra, SK) – Massimo GRILLI (Rome, I) – Leslie HOPPE OFM (Chicago, USA). 10. StBiSl Publisher (since 2012): Comenius University, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius, Kapitulská 26, 814 58 Bratislava 1, Slovakia. Prior StBiSl Publisher (2006 – 2011): Katolícke biblické dielo [The Katholisches Bibelwerk], Jilemnického 32/A, 059 21 Svit, Slovakia. 11. Papers published in StBiSl are indexed by Old Testament Abstracts and New Testament Abstracts.
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2. Process of Submitting and Publishing the Articles 1. Submitting the articles. Manuscripts should be submitted to the editor-in-chief by an e-mail attachment (.docx or .pdf) at redakcia@biblica.sk or blazejstrba@xaver.sk. 2. Closing dates. Manuscripts for the first StBiSl issue should be submitted by March 31st and those for the second StBiSl issue by September 30th. Any acceptance of the manuscripts sent after the closing dates is at the discretion of the editor-in-chief. In each StBiSl issue, only one manuscript may be submitted by an author. An exception is made when an author submits manuscripts whose arguments are closely related, but are studied from different point of view, e.g. a history of an ancient manuscript and its textual analysis. Manuscripts which are not consistent with the scope StBiSl will be returned to the authors. 5. Review report. Submitted manuscripts undergo an anonymous peer review process by two peer reviewers. The reviewers’ identity remains strictly anonymous to the author. The reviewers are chosen by the editor-in-chief mainly from among the members of the EB as experts in the field of the reviewed manuscript. A reviewer’s report makes a clear recommendation to publish, to revise or not to publish a submission, providing reasons for his recommendation. If there are two review reports that give contradictory results, the ultimate decision lies with the editor-in-chief. Within 14 days after their announcement, all the peer reviewers’ recommendations in the review report and/or in the peers’ comments of the manuscript should be implemented in the manuscript by the author and the manuscript should be re-submitted. After its re-submission and if the peer reviewers have no other objections, the manuscript is sent for proof editing. 6. Proof editing. Proof editing is provided by the ES. Besides the checking of spelling, punctuation, grammar, consistency of formatting and adherence to StBiSl style guidelines, it may also include some copy-editing tasks. The proofs are sent in PDF to the corresponding author by the executive editor before the respective StBiSl issues are printed. Authorization. The authors are obliged to return the proofs promptly and without delay no later than three days after the proofs have been delivered. If the authors disagree with the proofs, they must give a clear account for their disapproval by sending an e-mail to the editorial office indicating the manner in which the proof and copy editors be able to resolve the potential ambiguous cases. 7. Proprietary rights and published articles. The proprietary rights of the articles published in StBiSl belong to the StBiSl publisher. The author retains the copyright of the work but grants StBiSl publisher the only and exclusive right to publish for the full legal term of copyright. For their published articles, the authors are not financially remunerated either by the StBiSl editorial office or the StBiSl publisher. Each author receives one StBiSl printed issue for free, even if the author published one or more articles in the same StBiSl issue. After the publishing of the respective StBiSl issue, the editorial office sends for free a PDF version of the articles to its authors (e-offprints). The PDF offprints are sent to the authors’ e-mail addresses as indicated in the attachments to their manuscript. The PDF offprints can be made public only on the authors’ professional web pages or on www.academia.edu and they must be available for free. Making the PDF offprints public on other web portals or the dissemination of the PDF offprints by the authors or by the others than the StBiSl publisher is allowed only with the permission of the StBiSl publisher. This rule is valid for the published articles in StBiSl as well as for its versions before the review process in StBiSl. 3. Contacts (2014 – 2018) Publisher Comenius University Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius Kapitulská 26 814 58 BRATISLAVA 1 (Slovakia) IČO 0039786510 kniznica(at)frcth.uniba.sk
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Editorial Office Redakcia Studia Biblica Slovaca Banská 28 976 32 BADÍN (Slovakia) redakcia(at)biblica.sk www.biblica.sk Other contacts Blažej Štrba Editor-in-chief Banská 28 976 32 BADÍN (Slovakia) tel.: (+421) 48 472 50 37 blazejstrba(at)xaver.sk Jozef Jančovič Deputy Editor Sochorova 3 851 10 BRATISLAVA (Slovakia) jozef.jancovic(at)frcth.uniba.sk František Trstenský Review Editor Teologický inštitút Spišská Kapitula 6 053 04 SPIŠSKÉ PODHRADIE (Slovakia) f.trstensky(at)gmail.com Martina Korytiaková Executive Editor korytiakovamartina(at)gmail.com redakcia(at)biblica.sk
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B. Ethics Policy 1. Basic Ethics Standards of Publishing in StBiSl 1. StBiSl publishes only those articles which neither the entire nor its parts nor its translations have been previously published elsewhere (either in a printed or an electronic medium) or which are not already under another review process other than StBiSl. This agreement and consent is automatically taken by the author by the very submitting of his manuscript to the StBiSl editorial office. 2. All the articles published in StBiSl have to meet the criteria of scientific research. They have to be able to present an issue in a respectful scientific debate, to offer new findings on the respective issue and above all to offer an innovative solution. StBiSl primarily accepts the articles from the field of biblical exegesis, biblical theology, philology and biblical archaeology and history. StBiSl also welcomes submissions in biblical exegetical studies of an interdisciplinary character, such as Judaic studies, patristic studies, liturgy, moral theology, etc. 3. StBiSl accepts only original, scientific and professional papers regarding knowledge generated by the latest research on biblical science. These have to be a product of the authors’ own independent, scientific inquiry based on the research of the sources and scientific literature and a work written only by them. If citing, i.e. where material or data are taken from other literary sources – including their own published writings, the authors should clearly refer to it in the text of the manuscript by following the specific requirements of the BCS. 4. Submitted manuscripts undergo an anonymous peer review process by two or in case of necessity even by three peer reviewers. The reviewers’ identity remains strictly anonymous to the author. The reviewers are chosen by the editor-in-chief principally from among the members of the EB as experts in the field of the reviewed manuscript. The editor-in-chief communicates the results of the review reports to the authors. As part of the review process, submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. See StBiSl Publication Ethics. 5. Review process and review reports. Manuscripts submitted to StBiSl undergo an anonymous peer review process by two or three peer reviewers. The reviewers’ identity remains strictly anonymous to the author. The reviewers are chosen by the editor-in-chief principally from among the members of the EB as experts in the field of the reviewed manuscript. In his/her review report, the reviewer makes a clear recommendation either to publish, to revise and re-submit or not to publish a submission and provides reasons for his/her recommendation. If there are two review reports that give contradictory results, the ultimate decision lies with the editor-in-chief. 6. Authorship. Regarding authorship, all parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed. 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. 7. Acknowledgements. All those who have made a contribution to the article yet 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. Any personal acknowledgements should be supplied separately to the main text. 8. Declaration of conflicting interest. StBiSl requires that the authors by submitting their manuscripts declare to the StBiSl editorial office that there are no conflicting interests and respect the good practice in order to avoid any negative impact on their research outcomes. 2. StBiSl Publication Ethics and Policies 1. Basic Instructions a. Since 2012, the publisher of StBiSl is Comenius University, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius, Kapitulská 26, 814 58 Bratislava 1, Slovakia.
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b. The editor-in-chief is the managing body of StBiSl. The deputy editor-in-chief assumes the role of editor-in-chief in his absence. The executive body consists in the redactors: review redactor, executive redactor and the members of the Editorial Board. c. Members of the Editorial and the international Advisory Board are the notables in the field of biblical exegesis and biblical theology from Slovakia, Czech Republic and from abroad. The Editorial Board (hereafter EB) is responsible for the biblical scientific development in the articles submitted to StBiSl. It should avoid any malpractice in them and should oversee maintaining and promoting the requirements of StBiSl publication ethics as well as the quality of the submitted articles. d. The below given requirements of StBiSl publication ethics are binding for all persons who are involved in the StBiSl publication process. 2. Authorship and Responsibility of the Authors a. The authors should submit only original manuscripts which have been written only by them, which have not been previously published and have been submitted only to the periodical StBiSl. If the authors have taken some material or data from other sources – including their own published writing – the source must be clearly cited, and the obtained permission clearly stated. In the manuscript, there can be some parts which have been already published elsewhere, but the basic part of the manuscript must be original. b. Authors should cite all the sources (including their already published owns) they have used or to which they have referred in their articles. It is required to give information about all the obtained permissions for publication or for referring to the sources, mainly if some source have not been published yet. By the very submission of their articles, authors declare that the data used in their articles is true and not manipulated. c. Authors should ensure that their work does not infringe on any rights of others, including privacy rights and intellectual property rights. d. Authors should adhere to all research ethics guidelines of their discipline. e. Authors should contact the editor-in-chief to identify and correct any material errors upon discovery, whether prior or after to publication of their article. Authors are also bound to remove or to correct all material errors which have been indicated by the reviewers in the review report. f. Authors should be transparent. For instance, if an author is not sure whether his/her paper meets the requirement of originality (e.g., whether it might constitute duplicate publication), (s)he should immediately inform the journal’s editor-in-chief or executive editor. It is up to the editor to decide whether the paper is appropriate to publish. In that case, however, the author himself should clearly state any potential overlap in his/her paper. g. Authors guarantee that authorship or co-authorship of the paper is accurately represented, including ensuring that all individuals credited as authors participated in the actual authorship of the work and that all who participated are credited and have given their consent for publication. h. Authors should throughout their articles create the bibliographical references and provide a list of the bibliography at the end of the article according to the guidelines in Instructions for the contributors. They are fully responsible for right and accurate citations of the used literature and sources. i. Authors should provide their contact details (name and surname, academic affiliation, professional or personal mailing address and e-mail) as well as the respective funding assistance. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review process. j. Plagiarism and the use of the unreliable sources is not tolerable. k. Authors should ensure all the data, given in the article, are true and not manipulated. This also includes all their personal data which are required according to the rules of the StBiSl (see Instructions for the contributors). l. Authors can appeal against the decision of the editor-in-chief, or the EB respectively. Unsolved problems are treated in accordance with the rules of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). See http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines. 3. Review Process and Responsibility of Reviewers
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a. StBiSl operates an anonymous peer review process for articles. A necessary part of the peer review process is a reviewer’s report. In it, a reviewer provides a constructive, fair, and informative critique of the author’s work indicating weakness in scientific content and language and comments for improvement. He comments on the manuscript’s quality, its originality, the level of innovation, and on the manuscript’s contribution to the discussed matter. b. Review reports should meet requirements for objectivity and confidentiality. The reviewers submit their report only to the editor-in-chief and he uses it as the basis for his final decision about publishing or not publishing of the article. The editor-in-chief can forward the report to the authors as the basis for the objectively given decision. Reviewers should submit their reports promptly to the editor-in-chief in a timely manner. c. Reviewers should immediately alert the editor-in-chief of any real or potential competing interest that could affect the impartiality of their reviewing. They can even decline to review where appropriate. In any case, they should, however, conduct themselves fairly and impartially. d. The reviewers’ identity should remain strictly anonymous to the author of the manuscript both before and after the peer review process. e. The review process is strictly anonymous. The names of the authors and the reviewers are known to neither party. The reviewer’s identity remains strictly anonymous to the author unless the reviewer himself/herself decides to reveal his/her identity to the author. f. The reviewer cannot be in any conflict of interest with the author’s research, with the author himself/herself nor with the subjects who financially support the author’s research and whose outcome is the author’s article. g. Reviewers are obliged to inform the editor-in-chief or the editorial office if a similar article has been previously published elsewhere or if in the article there have been used irrelevant works. h. Any personal criticism of authors and offensive or derogatory language in the critique is inappropriate and the reviewers must avoid it. 4. Priority Principles of the StBiSl Publication Ethics a. To ensure that articles published in StBiSl meet the international ethics principles and academic practices. b. To prevent any negative influence on the intellectual rights and ethics principles or their misuse by the commerce. c. To maintain an accurate and transparent academic record and publish corrections, clarifications, retractions of the article or its parts and apologies when necessary. d. To ensure an anonymous peer review process. e. To indicate suspicions of improper unethical behaviour and to take appropriate legal action when necessary. 5. Responsibility of StBiSl Editors, Editorial Board and Publisher a. StBiSl editors (hereafter editors) should maintain and promote consistent ethical policies for StBiSl. Likewise, they should oversee and act to enforce those policies in a fair and consistent manner. b. The editors should exercise the highest standards of personal integrity in their work. They should recognise and manage instances where they could have a competing interest or the appearance of a competing interest. c. The editors work with authors, reviewers, and the members of the EB to ensure they are sufficiently advised regarding their journal’s ethics and publishing policies and that the journal’s stewardship on ethical matters is fair, unbiased, and timely. d. It is the responsibility and the right of the editors to accept or to not accept the manuscripts sent to the review process which are not consistent with StBiSl scope. e. The reviewers’ reports are the basis for the editor-in-chief’s decision about the manuscript publication. The editors have rights to publish the accepted manuscript in the whatever StBiSl issue.
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f. The editor-in-chief cannot accept the publication of any manuscript that would not undergo the review process or whose review report was not positive. Without the review process, there can be accepted for the publication only the non-scientific contributions of informative nature, articles, monographs’ reviews, announcements or news. g. The EB members may send their manuscripts for the StBiSl review process. The review process is, however, the same for all the authors, regardless of the authors’ role as editor in the EB. h. The EB is committed to oversee, maintain and promote ethical policies for the StBiSl journal. i. The EB is committed to maintaining an accurate and transparent academic record and to oversee that all the published manuscripts will meet the rules of the internationally accepted ethical politics and standards of academic work. j. The EB guards the confidentiality of the authors’ personal data, the review process, the review reports’ contents and the content of the e-mail correspondence of the StBiSl EB with both the authors and the reviewers. k. The StBiSl EB makes public, and occasionally also updates, the review process guidelines and the guidelines for manuscript style (see Instructions for Contributors) that should be followed. When the mistakes caused by the EB occur in the published issue, it is EB’s duty to make the corrections public. Only minor inconsistencies in the manuscripts will be corrected by the editors. l. The reviewers’ anonymity is strictly guarded. m. The publisher is responsible for the prevention against any conflicting interests between the redactors, authors, reviewers and the members of the Editorial Board. Editor-in-chief, or his deputy respectively, resolves cases of publishing ethics abuse in accord with Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE) https://publicationethics.org/ or Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK), https://www.elsevier.com/editors/perk. n. The publisher avoids any conflicting interests regarding the accepted or rejected manuscripts. 6. Members of the StBiSl Editorial Staff a. Each member of the ES should promote fairness and equality, oppose discrimination, promote the transparency of and respect for the academic record, respect the confidentiality of others and be transparent about real or apparent competing interests. b. Plagiarism. StBiSl and its publisher take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism and other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Their effort is to protect the rights of the authors and always to investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. The protection of the StBiSl journal’s reputation against malpractice is an imperative. c. Submitted articles to which reviewers have drawn the editor-in-chief’s attention due to possible plagiarism may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for instance, is found to have plagiarised other works or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, ES and its publisher reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum; 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 in accordance with both the Slovak Republic and the European Union legislation. d. Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. By the submitting of the article to the StBiSl review process and by the article’s acceptation for the publishing, the author gives his/her agreement with the publishing of the article in StBiSl. It is a kind of an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants the StBiSl publisher 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 the StBiSl publisher. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. f. Permissions. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
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C. Instructions for Contributors 1. Basic Information for Submitting Manuscripts 1. The submitted manuscripts, including their attachments, should be exclusively posted as electronic files. Preferred formats for the text and tables of the manuscripts are those of MS Word (.doc or .docx) or those converted to the same format if another OS is used, such as Macintosh or Linux. Only files conforming to the StBiSl guidelines will be accepted. Manuscripts should be submitted to the editor-inchief by e-mail attachment to: redakcia@biblica.sk. In the sent file, its author anonymity should be set up, i.e. all parts which could identify the author should be in the file’s properties removed. 2. By the submitting of the article to the StBiSl review process and by the article’s acceptation for the publishing, the author gives his/her agreement with the publishing of the article in StBiSl. This act replaces an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants the StBiSl publisher the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. 3. Requests for book reviews should be sent by e-mail to the review editor at redakcia@biblica.sk. The books should be posted to: Redakcia Studia Biblica Slovaca, Banská 28, 976 32 BADÍN, Slovakia. a) Specific Format Criteria – Text 1. The length of the submitted manuscripts (including spaces and footnotes): a. Articles: 20.000 – 70.000 characters (shorter manuscripts are preferred), b. Research notes: 10.000 – 20.000 characters, c. Reviews: 7.000 – 20.000 characters. 2. Sheet format: A4. 3. Fonts preferred: Times New Roman, Normal, 12-points. a. When the Hebrew and Greek languages are used, UNICODE fonts are required. b. In the Greek texts, accents and aspirations should be used; the Hebrew and Aramaic texts should be used without the Masoretic vocalization save the cases when the vocalization needs to be highlighted. c. When other Semitic languages than Hebrew is used (e.g. Akkadic, Coptic, Syriac, etc.), the author should inform the editorial office or editor-in-chief. d. For the transliteration or trans-vocalization of the Hebrew and Greek words the authors should refer to ŠTRBA, Blažej: Bibliografia biblických vied slovenskej a českej proveniencie (1989 – 2013). Bibliography of biblical sciences of Slovak and Czech provenance (1989 – 2013) (StBiSlSupp), Badín: Vlastným nákladom, 2014, 300-305. 4. For highlighting, Italics is allowed, bold is not. 5. Single line spacing. 6. Headings can be numbered either by using of a pre-defined style or by a manual numbering. For more, see General Layout of Manuscript. 7. No wrapping, no special formatting, no indentation of paragraphs should be used in the manuscript. 8. When the articles are written in other than the Slovak language, the exact orthography and grammar should be followed. 9. The given guidelines should be followed in the articles as well in research notes, reviews, news or announcements. b) Formatting of the Quotations and Bibliographic References 1. For a more transparent and a higher readability, the biblical quotations in the original languages should be kept in the text to a minimum. 2. Abbreviations of the biblical books and abbreviations of the often-cited works should be used in accord with Abbreviations on www.biblica.sk. 3. Biblical passages between chapters are indicated by using a dash (–) without spaces before and after it, e.g. Exod 3:1–4:18. For indicating the biblical passages between the verses in one chapter, a hyphen (-
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) is used, e.g. vv. 5-61. A dash (–) with a space before and after it is used only for an indication of a historical period, e.g. 58 – 56 B.C.E. or several co-authors of one monograph in both the footnotes and the list of bibliography. 4. If there are quotation marks within a cited passage in the text (the so-called citations within citations), different type of quotation marks should be used: “Text texxttext texttexttexttext «text text text text» text text…” 5. In the text of the manuscript, the footnotes are indicated by a number in the superscript before the punctuation mark, with the exception in the case of the question mark: Texttext “… textetexttexttexttexttexttexttext”13, texttexxttext… When the citations are full sentences or passages of more than three lines, they should be given as a new paragraph: Text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text text texttext texttexxt texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext texttexxttext text texttext.14
6. Footnotes should be placed on the respective pages in the manuscript. In the footnotes, all bibliographic references, including the first one, should be given in an abbreviated form (see below). Pages in the citations are indicated without the “p.” abbreviation; notes are indicated with the “n.” abbreviation. Abbreviated form of the references in footnotes: a. monographs: SURNAME, Title, page, note. SKA, Our Fathers, 5, n. 6. b. articles, contributions in monographs: SURNAME, Title, page. EßER, Barmherzigkeit, 5. 7. If there are several different works from one author cited in the same footnote, the author’s surname should be indicated repeatedly, i.e. without the use of Ibid., Idem., or Id. 8. For the author’s surname, small caps should be used ABCD, not capital letters ABCD. 9. A full or complex, i.e. non-abbreviated, form of the references is given only in the final bibliography. 10. The bibliography, or list of references at the end of the contribution, should include all works cited in the article or research note. The entries should be in an alphabetical order by the last name of the author/editor, or by the last name of the first author/editor if there are several co-authors/co-editors. If there is no author/editor, the respective work is ordered by the first letter of its title. Several works by an identical author are ordered by the year of the publication, starting with the oldest work. The author’s name should be repeated for each work separately. 11. The first name of the author/editor should be given in the full form (e.g. ZENGER, Erich; not ZENGER, E.). If the author/editor has more than one first name, at least one should be given in the full form; the remaining names can be indicated by the initials (e.g. FITZMYER, Joseph A.). c) General Layout of Manuscript 1. The manuscript should have a title characterizing its content. A subtitle, specifying the argument of the manuscript can be added. The editors may modify the title of the manuscript as far as its linguistic and/or stylistic aspect is concerned. 2. Generally, the body of the manuscript should be as follows: introduction, chapters (if necessary, divided into sub-chapters), conclusion, bibliography, summary and key words.
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3. The article begins with an introduction and it ends with a conclusion. The main body of the text of the manuscript should be subdivided into several chapters and (if necessary) sub-chapters. Headings of chapters should be given in Regular Font Style and numbered by Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3…). A rational levelling of headings should be used in the manuscripts, i.e. no more than two sub-levels (1 Heading1, 1.1 Heading2, 1.1.1 Heading3). Introduction and conclusion are not numbered. Example: Introduction 1 Xxxxxxxx xxxxx 1.1 Xxxxxxxx 1.1.2 Xxxxxxxx 2 Xxxxxxxxxxxx 2. Required Parts of the Manuscripts The authors of articles, short research notes or reflection essay are also asked to submit: 1. the title (and subtitle, respectively) of the manuscript in English, 2. a short Summary of 1.100 characters maximum including spaces in English, 3. key words (no more than five) in Slovak/Czech and English, 4. bibliography or list of references (see § C.1.b.9-11) and 5. author’s contact details (name and surname, academic affiliation, professional or personal mailing address and e-mail). In the case of a submitted review, the authors should indicate the data of the reviewed work as follows: SURNAME, First Name: Title. Subtitle (Series Number), Place of publication: Name of the Publisher, Year. pages. ISBN. 3. Attachments 1. Illustrations, pictures and graphs should be supplied with the highest quality and in an electronic format which facilitates publishing the article in the best way possible. Submitted images are published only in black and white colour in print. Pictures should be sent separately in the following preferred formats: .JPG, .JPEG, .TIFF, .BMP and .EPS (for graphs and line art). Rasterized based files (i.e. with .TIFF or .JPEG extension) require a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). Images should be properly marked and identified. For their placement, a placeholder note should be added in the running text, i.e. “(insert Figure 1)” etc. 2. Figures, charts and tables created in MS Word can be included in the main text. If created outside MS Word, i.e. MS Excel (.xls or .xlsx), JPG or PDF, they should be submitted separately.
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D. Bibliography and Citation Style (BCS) The submitted manuscripts should conform to the StBiSl Bibliography and Citation Style (hereafter BCS), which is available online on http://biblica.sk/en/podmienky/bibliograficky-styl/. The articles not conforming to BCS will be sent back to the author for its reworking. A Cited Bibliography list is required at the end of the article, thus the references in the article should be brief. The examples follow, the first citation is in the complete form and the second is the abbreviated reference: 1. Book DUBOVSKÝ, Peter: Hezekiah and the Assyrian Spies. Reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian Intelligence Services and its Significance for 2 Kings 18–19 (BibOr 49), Roma: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2006. ZERWICK, Maximilian: Biblical Greek. Illustrated by Examples by Maximilian Zerwick S.J. (SubBi 41), Roma: GBP, 92011. DUBOVSKÝ, Hezekiah and the Assyrian Spies, 23-25. ZERWICK, Biblical Greek, 13-14.16.
2. Entry in an Encyclopaedia or a Dictionary, Section of a Book a) Entry in an Encyclopaedia or a Dictionary COATS, George W.: Joseph, Son of Jacob. In: ABD III (1992) 976-981. COATS, Joseph, 977-978.
b) Article in a Collected Work HOFFNER, Harry A., Cult Inventories. In: William W. Hallo – K. Lawson Younger, Jr. (eds.): The Context of Scripture. Volume III: Archival Documents from the Biblical World, Leiden – Boston – Köln: Brill, 2002, 63-65. MARGUERAT, Daniel: La conversion de Saul (Ac 9, 22, 26). In: Daniel Marguerat: La première histoire du christianisme (LeDiv 180), Paris – Genève: Les Éditions du Cerf – Labor et fides, 1999, 269300. HOFFNER, Cult Inventories, 63, n. 2. MARGUERAT, La conversion de Saul, 270-272.273.
3. Article in a Periodical ALETTI, Jean-Noël: Can One Speak of a Conversion of Paul in the Book of Acts?, StBiSl 9/1 (2017) 104118. ALETTI, Can One Speak?, 112-113.
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HARRIS, Laird – ARCHER Jr., Gleason L. – WALTKE, Bruce K. (eds.): The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Chicago, IL: originally published by Moody Press, 1980, location. In: BibleWorks® 6.0: Software for Biblical Exegesis and Research [CD-ROM], Norfolk, VA, 2003. HARRIS – ARCHER – WALTKE, Theological Wordbook, location. b) From the Internet JANČOVIČ, Jozef: „V srdciach sa vrátili do Egypta“ (Sk 7,39). Exegeticko-teologická analýza perikopy Ex 32–34 s využitím kánonického prístupu [disseration] [online], Bratislava: RKCMBF UK, 2008. [Accessed 29-06-2014]. Available at: https://stella.uniba.sk/zkpstorage/dpg/dostupne/RK/2009/2009-RK-GwSLyh/2009-RK-GwSLyh.pdf. JUHÁS, Peter – LAPKO, Róbert: Aspis und Draqōnē und die mythologischen Wesen der Syrischen BaruchApokalypse, ETL 91/1 (2015) 131-144. [Accessed 20-12-2017]. DOI: 10.2143/ETL.91.1.3078155 SKA, Jean Louis: Bibliografia basilare dell’AT. Old Testament Basic Bibliography [online], 2.4 Numeri [Accessed 10-07-2014]. Available at: http://www.biblico.it/doc-vari/ska_bibl.html JUHÁS – LAPKO, Aspis und Draqōnē, 136. JANČOVIČ, V srdciach [Accessed 29-06-2014], 19. SKA, Bibliografia basilare [Accessed 10-07-2014], 2.4 Numeri. c) E-books DAVIS, Thomas: History of Research. In: Margarete L. Steiner – Ann E. Killebrew (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant, c. 8000-332 BCE (Oxford handbooks) [iBooks], Oxford: University Press, 2014, 104-120. DAVIS, History of Research, 113-118. National Era.
5. Personal Communication a) Personal Communication by Email BRAULIK, Georg: ÖBS 32, georg.braulik(at)univie.ac.at.
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BRAULIK, ÖBS 32, email communication. b) Personal Communication – Oral/Written JUHÁS, Peter: Konferencia Žalmy, Oral communication [Accessed 14-09-2012]. JUHÁS, Konferencia Žalmy, Oral communication.
6. General Notes and Abbreviations a) General Notes 1. The names of authors are given: the family name (in CAPS & SMALL CAPS), followed by a comma, then the first name(s), followed by a colon. In the case of multiple authorship, names are to be separated with a dash (–). 2. The titles of books and of periodicals are given always in italics, followed by series title and volume number placed within brackets, followed by a comma (,).
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3. Then the place of publication (followed by a comma and postal abbreviations for cities in the USA, except for New York) is followed by a comma and the publisher, followed by a comma and the year of publication. 4. The page number(s) follow(s) the year of publication with a comma and without any abbreviation such as p., pp., etc. 5. The abbreviated reference consists of the surname(s), shortened title and page number(s). If there is more than one publication by the same author, the year of publication should be added: HOSSFELD – ZENGER, Psalmen 101–150, 2007, 251-255. 6. The abbreviation of the volume should reflect the volume language: Band (Bd.), Volume (Vol.), Tome (t.), zväzok (zv.) atď. For the volume number, Roman numerals followed by the volume name (if there is) are used. Further specifications are separated by a semicolon: Bd. I: Volume title; Bd. II: Volume title; etc. 7. The second and other editions are indicated by number preceding immediately the year of publication: 22007. 8. The title of an encyclopaedia or a dictionary may be given in a well established abbreviation (see Abbreviations, or IATG3. Volume is given in Roman numerals. 9. The reference to eBook has to contain indication of the format of the book, e.g., Adobe Digital Editions version, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, etc. – and page numbers if available (e.g. in format .pdf), or the most precise identification of the location in the quoted publications. It could be also the name of the chapter, paragraph, etc. b) The Use of Abbreviations 1. To abbreviate the titles of the Old and New Testament books, the authors should follow the online list of Abbreviations. 2. To separate the numbers of the chapters and verses, a colon is used (:), e.g., Gen 3:2-6. To indicate a verse range within one chapter, a hyphen (-) is used and the full-stop when verses are disjoined, e.g. John 5:8-9.15.20. To indicate a verse range extending beyond one chapter, a dash (–) is used, e.g., Jdt 3:1–4:9. 3. To distinguish biblical citations according to the original text, the MT or LXX abbreviations are given behind the complete citation, e.g., Josh 9:2 LXX; Jer 31:31-33 MT. 4. In the text, the number of a verse is indicated together with the abbreviation “v.” with one space after. To indicate two or more verses, the abbreviation “vv.” is used; e.g., v. 3; “vv. 2-4.6”. 5. To abbreviate the titles of the oft-cited works, the authors should consult the online Abbreviations or SCHWERTNER, Siegfried M.: IATG3 – Internationales Abkürzungnsverzeichnis für Theologie und Grenzgebiete (= IATG3), Berlin – Boston: Walter de Gruyer, 32014. 6. When there is a work whose abbreviated form is not available neither in the online Abbreviations or in IATG3, the full title of the work should be given. Later, the editors can assign the work a new abbreviation which will be added to the existing list of the abbreviations available online. 7. When the submitting manuscripts do not conform to the StBiSl Style guidelines and ethics, they will be not accepted for the review process but given back to the authors for their reworking.
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E. Jozef Búda Awards The Jozef Búda Award has been given by StBiSl editorial office since 2012. It is named after Jozef Búda, a notable personage in the field of Slovak biblical science and renowned professor at the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius in Bratislava. The Jozef Búda Awards is granted to individuals for their professional and scientific work accomplished in the field of biblical exegesis and research in and outside Slovakia. It strives to be, above all, a moral acknowledgement for a scientific and professional endeavour in the field of biblical exegesis and research which has been published in the StBiSl journal. Of course, a contribution of the awarded recipient to the worldwide biblical science is taken into account as well. The Jozef Búda Award is biennial. Jozef Búda, Slovak theologian, university professor, Roman Catholic priest and Church dignitary, was born on September 14, 1898 in Nemecká (Austro-Hungarian Empire) and died on June 23, 1994 in Báč (Slovakia). From 1930, he taught religion at the College in Banská Bystrica, and from September 1, 1933 he became deputy professor at the Roman Catholic Theological High School at Banská Bystrica. In 1942, he worked as ordinary professor of the Old Testament at the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius in Bratislava. From 1945, he served as rector of the Priest Seminary in Banská Bystrica as well as professor of pastoral theology (1945 – 1946). He published a two-volume monograph Gospel of the Old Testament I – II and collaborated in the translation of the Old Testament into Slovak. He published in both the local religious magazines and world famous scientific journals. In 1992, he was appointed papal prelate.