BJS is a book series with a long and distinguished history, and I have the privilege of serving now as its Managing Editor. In addition to working on our publication list (we have recently published some terrific books, including Moshe Halbertal’s The Birth of Doubt, I have spent much of the past year running a program to digitize fifty of our back-titles and to make them open access, in perpetuity. We are just beginning to roll this out. The press release is below.
Press Release
April 21, 2020
Brown Judaic Studies (BJS) announces the launch of our Open Access Books program. During the 2019-2020 academic year, with the support of a grant from the NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Books program, we have been digitizing about fifty titles from our backlist in order to make them publicly accessible at no cost in perpetuity. The books are available for download in different formats, including PDF, EPUB, HTML, and plain text (for text-mining). Most of the books have received additional copyediting and several contain new prefaces by the authors. Print on Demand editions of these new editions will also be available for purchase.
BJS Open Books will be available on the Brown Judaic Studies website in all formats. The books can also be accessed, in different formats, through a number of other sites: JSTOR (HTML and PDF); Project MUSE (HTML and PDF); the Hathi Trust (PDF); SBL Press (Print on Demand); Amazon (e-Reader); and the Brown Digital Repository (PDF, HTML, e-Reader and TXT). The Association for Jewish Studies will also post a link to our titles.
Current available titles, with links to JSTOR, are below. We hope to have all of our open access titles available on all platforms during this summer.
Brown Judaic Studies is a book series specializing in high-quality scholarly books in Jewish studies. Run by the faculty of the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University, we have published over 350 volumes over forty years. For more information about Brown Judaic Studies and our recent publications, click here.
Currently available volumes:
History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band by William Cutter, and David C. Jacobson https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv540
Kol Nidre: Studies in the Development of Rabbinic Votive Institutions by Moshe Benovitz https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5pq
Claude Montefiore and Christianity by Maurice Gerald Bowler https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5gt
The Jewish Family in Antiquity by Shaye J.D. Cohen https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb9cp
Diasporas in Antiquity by Shaye J.D. Cohen, and Ernest S. Frerichs https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5cc
The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, Sources by Lynn H. Cohick https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb90c
Behind the Essenes: History and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5fb
The Law of Jealousy: Anthropology of Sotah by Adriana Destro https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5q6
Barukh Kurzweil and Modern Hebrew Literature by James S. Diamond https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5bw
The Libes Briv of Isaac Wetzlar by Morris M. Faierstein https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv4xn
Essays on Biblical Method and Translation by Edward Greenstein https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5k8
Mishnah’s Theology of Tithing: A Study of Tractate Maaserot by Martin Jaffee https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv4sq
A Conceptual Commentary on Midrash Leviticus Rabbah: Value Concepts in Rabbinic Thought by Max Kadushin https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5wm
Goodenough on the Beginnings of Christianity by A.T. Kraabel https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv57f
The Theology of Nahmanides Systematically Presented by David Novak https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb9fn
A Wise and Discerning Mind: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long by Saul Olyan, and Robert Culley https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb93t
A History of the United Jewish Appeal by Marc Lee Raphael https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5n7
Approaches to Modern Judaism by Marc Lee Raphael https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb99q
A History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods by Jeffrey Rubenstein https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv502
Scholastic Rabbinism: A Literary Study of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan by Anthony J. Saldarini
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb987
Tasting the Dish: Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality by Michael Satlow https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5s5
Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Courts, Testimony and the Penal Code by Lawrence H. Schiffman https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5js
Jewish Thought Adrift: Max Wiener by Robert S. Schine https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv4p8
Philo’s Perception of Women by Dorothy Sly https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv4w5
From Rebuke to Consolation: Exegesis and Theology in the Liturgical Anthology of the Ninth Av Season by Elsie Stern https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv4z4