September-November 2003

In the course of the autumn quarter the RIP staff has completed the indexing of six titles: Orate Fratres (1926-1948), Biblical Archaeologist (1938-1948), Commentary (1945-1948), Revue des Études Byzantines (1943-1948), Unitarian Universalist Christian (1946-1948), and Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review (1939-1948). Both Orate Fratres (succeeded by Worship) and Biblical Archaeologist are ATLAS titles. Indexing has begun on Journal of Religious Thought (1943-), Orientalia Christiana Periodica (1935-), and Palestine Exploration Quarterly (1937-).

Both Ben and Todd have received powerful new laptops that are materially increasing our productivity. Repeated crashes of the ARDIS database (the database used by both RIP and ATLA RDB) have necessitated some creative workarounds. Indexing continues apace.

For those interested in the content of RIP: By the completion of this project, ATLA RDB will boast an extraordinarily broad collection of bibliographic citations to events in and around the second World War. The monthly Commentary (1945-1948), published by the American Jewish Committee under the able editorship of Elliot Ettelson Cohen, is a mine of brilliant essays dealing with Displaced Persons (stateless survivors of the Jewish Holocaust), responses to the loosing of the atomic bomb, and the travails of the Yishuv leading up to the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948. Full indexing of the weekly Christian Century (1940-1948), which will entail the creation of over 10,000 records, brings the reader into the seasoned orbit of Charles Clayton Morrison, editor-in-chief, a major figure in 20th-century Protestant American journalism who had been in the saddle since before WWI. Week after week, the saga of the European and Pacific theatres unfolds; American anxiety regarding the ambitions of the victorious Soviet Union leads to the Cold War, identified as such by 1948; the creation of the United Nations again elicits hope of a world community capable of policing itself without recourse to global warfare, the mirage of the League of Nations; and America ponders the use of its nuclear arsenal and the exercise of economic imperialism in a world shrunken by instantaneous communication and an armada possessed of unprecedened mobility. Paul Tillich engages in conversation with Martin Buber, and Mahatma Gandhi is slain. There were giants in those days . . .

I would like to thank Reverend Neil Gerdes of Meadville-Lombard Theological School Library for his generous assistance in rounding up volumes of Unitarian Universalist Christian and Commentary, and permitting us to index them off-site.

To date, we have finished RIP indexing for these 23 titles:

	American Catholic Sociological Review (1940-1948)
	Biblical Archaeologist (1938-1948)
	Catholic Biblical Quarterly (1939-1948)
	Church History (1932-1948)
	Commentary (1945-1948)
	Eastern Buddhist (1921-1939 [publication suspended until 1949])
	Ecumenical Review (1948-1949)
	Estudios Bíblicos (1941-1948)
	Hebrew Union College Annual (1919, 1924-1948)
	Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology (1947-1948)
	Journal of Biblical Literature (1881-1948)
	Journal of Pastoral Care (1947-1948)
	Mélanges de Science Religieuse (1944-1948)
	Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift (1946-1948)
	Orate Fratres (1926-1948)
	Revue des Études Byzantines (1943-1948)
	Theologische Zeitschrift (1945-1948)
	Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review (1939-1948)
	Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion (1943-1948)
	Union Seminary Quarterly Review (1945-1948)
	Unitarian Universalist Christian (1946-1948)
	Vigiliae Christianae: A Review of Early Christian Life and Language (1947-1948)
	Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (1948)

Indexing has begun on these 7 titles:

	Christian Century (issues in 1940, 1941, 1945)
	Journal of Religious Thought (1943-1948)
	Journal of the National Association of Biblical Instructors and Journal of Bible and Religion (the ancestors of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1933-1946, lacking 1947-48)
	Orientalia Christiana Periodica (1935-1936)
	Palestine Exploration Quarterly (1937-1940)
	Theological Studies (1940-1944)
	Westminster Theological Journal (1938-1944)

Titles from the summer triage list remaining to be begun:

	Covenant Quarterly (1941-)
	Reformed Theological Review (1942-)
	Scottish Journal of Theology (1948-)
	Studia Theologica: Scandinavian Journal of Theology (1947-)
	Theology Today (1944-)

Indexing has been suspended on:

	Bibliotheca Sacra (1856-1948)
	Christian Century (1900-1939)
	Christian Oracle (1884-1899)

Respectfully Submitted,

Steven W. Holloway, RIP Project Director
December 4, 2003