Old Testament and Ancient Near East

Although this is a New Testament web log, there's an Old Testament site worth mentioning, not least because I often get asked the question "Is there an Old Testament Gateway?". In addition to iTanakh and the Old Testament Gateway, another useful site that's just come to my attention is The Old Testament and the Ancient Near East by Ralph W. Klein, Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor of Old Testament and editor of Currents in Theology and Mission. It's a good and pretty full collection of links, suitably broken down into digestible sections, with a memorable URL (http://www.ot-studies.com) and it's searchable. A couple of negatives: there's no indication of when the last update took place, so it's impossible to track new additions and changes to the site, unless I'm missing it somewhere. I'd also say that Prof. Klein has tried to cram too much onto individual pages, especially The World of Biblical Studies, which limits the usefulness of the search engine provided. Further, the frames set up means that the basic URL stays in the location bar throughout, making it hard work to bookmark or link to individual pages on the site. And he doesn't refer to the NT Gateway or the All-in-One Biblical Resources search, but I won't hold that against him : ) . In spite of the minor gripes, an excellent new site.