Publisher Description

Brown Judaic Studies has been publishing scholarly books in all areas of Judaic studies for forty years. Our books, many of which contain groundbreaking scholarship, were typically printed in small runs and are not easily accessible outside of major research libraries. We are delighted that with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, we are now able to make available, in digital, open-access, format, fifty titles from our backlist. Once digitized the volumes will be freely available through ProjectMUSE, JSTOR, ACLS Open Humanities and the Hathi Trust. The volumes will also be available for purchase as print on demand.


71 Books in JSTOR Copyright Date
The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World 2018
Animals and the Law in Antiquity 2021
Approaches to Modern Judaism OPEN ACCESS 2020
Babylonian Witchcraft Literature: Case Studies OPEN ACCESS 2020
Barukh Kurzweil and Modern Hebrew Literature OPEN ACCESS 2020
Behind the Essenes: History and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls OPEN ACCESS 2020
Beloved David—Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer: A Festschrift in Honor of David Stern 2024
Ben Sira’s Teaching on Friendship OPEN ACCESS 2020
Ben Sira’s View of Women: A Literary Analysis OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Biblical Herem: A Window in Israel’s Religious Experience OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Birth of Doubt: Confronting Uncertainty in Early Rabbinic Literature 2020
The Book of the People OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Book of the Pomegranate: Moses de Leon’s Sefer H-Rimmon OPEN ACCESS 2020
Claude Montefiore and Christianity OPEN ACCESS 2020
A Conceptual Commentary on Midrash Leviticus Rabbah: Value Concepts in Rabbinic Thought OPEN ACCESS 2020
Diasporas in Antiquity OPEN ACCESS 2020
Early Rabbinic Civil Law OPEN ACCESS 2020
Essays on Biblical Method and Translation OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Formation of a Modern Rabbi: The Life and Times of the Viennese Scholar and Preacher Adolf Jellinek 2022
From Rebuke to Consolation: Exegesis and Theology in the Liturgical Anthology of the Ninth Av Season OPEN ACCESS 2020
Going West: Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture 2021
Goodenough on the Beginnings of Christianity OPEN ACCESS 2020
Goyim: Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta OPEN ACCESS 2020
Halakhah in a Theological Perspective OPEN ACCESS 2020
Handbook of Synagogue Architecture OPEN ACCESS 2020
History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band OPEN ACCESS 2020
A History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods OPEN ACCESS 2020
A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Kilayim: Translation and Exegesis OPEN ACCESS 2020
A History of the United Jewish Appeal OPEN ACCESS 2020
How America Met the Jews 2017
The Human Will in Judaism: The Mishnah’s Philosophy of Intention OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Idea of Atonement in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Jewish Family in Antiquity OPEN ACCESS 2020
Jewish Thought Adrift: Max Wiener (1882-1950) OPEN ACCESS 2020
Kol Nidre: Studies in the Development of Rabbinic Votive Institutions OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Law of Jealousy: Anthropology of Sotah OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Libes Briv of Isaac Wetzlar OPEN ACCESS 2020
Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin 2024
Mishnah’s Theology of Tithing: A Study of Tractate Maaserot OPEN ACCESS 2020
A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer 2015
"The One Who Sows Bountifully": Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers 2013
Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, Sources OPEN ACCESS 2020
Philo’s Perception of Women OPEN ACCESS 2020
Praying Legally 2019
Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World 2012
The Priestly Gift of Mishnah: A Study of Tractate Terumot OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Sanctity of the Seventh Year: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Shebiit OPEN ACCESS 2020
Scholastic Rabbinism: A Literary Study of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan OPEN ACCESS 2020
Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Courts, Testimony and the Penal Code OPEN ACCESS 2020
Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in their Interactions OPEN ACCESS 2020
Some Jewish Women in Antiquity OPEN ACCESS 2020
Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen 2018
Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 1 2021
Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible 2018
Support for the Poor in the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Tractate Peah OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature OPEN ACCESS 2020
A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli OPEN ACCESS 2020
Tangled Roots: The Emergence of Israeli Culture 2020
Tasting the Dish: Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality OPEN ACCESS 2020
The Theology of Nahmanides Systematically Presented OPEN ACCESS 2020
To Caesar What Is Caesar’s: Tribute, Taxes, and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine OPEN ACCESS 2020
Two Treatises of Philo of Alexandria: A Commentary on De Gigantibus and Quod Deus sit Immutabilis OPEN ACCESS 2020
Valuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, especially the Elisha Cycle 2013
Vol. 1 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary OPEN ACCESS 2020
Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary OPEN ACCESS 2020
Vol. 3 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary: Esther Chapter 5 to End OPEN ACCESS 2020
When Texts Are Canonized 2017
A Wise and Discerning Mind: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long OPEN ACCESS 2020
Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues OPEN ACCESS 2020
Worship, Women and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch 2015








































































































































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