Brown Judaic Studies
Books published by Brown Judaic Studies are produced and distributed exclusively by the Society of Biblical Literature. Brown Judaic Studies is a peer-reviewed monograph series that publishes high quality, specialized books aimed primarily at a scholarly audience. Submissions in any historical period from antiquity to the present are welcomed. BJS is particularly interested in historical, literary and philosophical studies. On occasion, collections of essays such as Festschriften, are published.
Greenstein, Edward L. Essays on Biblical Method and Translation. BJS 92. Scholars Press, 1985.
Cohen, Shaye J. D. The Jewish Family in Antiquity. BJS 289. Scholars Press, 1993.
Corley, Jeremy. Ben Sira’s Teaching on Friendship. BJS 316. Brown University, 2002.
Sinkoff, Nancy. Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands. BJS 336. Brown Judaic Studies, 2004.
Stern, Elsie R. From Rebuke to Consolation: Exegesis and Theology in the Liturgical Anthology of the Ninth of Av Season. BJS 338. Brown University, 2005.
Harris, Robert A. Discerning Parallelism: A Study in Northern French Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis. BJS 341. Brown University, 2005.
Gray, Alyssa M. A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah. BJS 342. Brown University, 2005.
Udoh, Fabian E. To Caesar What Is Caesar’s: Tribute, Taxes, and Imperial Administration in Early Roman Palestine (63 B.C.E.–70 C.E.). BJS 343. Brown Judaic Studies, 2006.
Berger, Yitzhak. The Commentary of Rabbi David Kimhi to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary. BJS 345. Brown Judaic Studies, 2007.
Geoghegan, Jeffrey C. The Time, Place, and Purpose of the Deuteronomistic History: The Evidence of “Until This Day.” BJS 347. Brown Judaic Studies, 2006.
Hidary, Richard. Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud. BJS 351. Brown Judaic Studies, 2010.
Kaplan, Zvi Jonathan. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: French Jewry and the Problem of the Church and State. BJS 352. Brown Judaic Studies, 2009.
Neujahr, Matthew. Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World. BJS 354. Brown Judaic Studies, 2012.
Parker, Julie Faith. Valuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, Especially the Elisha Cycle. BJS 355. Brown Judaic Studies 2013.
Johnson Hodge, Caroline, Saul M. Olyan, Daniel Ullucci, and Emma Wasserman, eds. The One Who Sows Bountifully: Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers. BJS 356. Brown Judaic Studies, 2013.
Collins, John J., T. M. Lemos, Saul M. Olyan, eds. Worship, Women, and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch. BJS 357. Brown Judaic Studies, 2015.
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, Nathaniel DesRosiers, Shira L. Lander, Jacqueline Z. Pastis, and Daniel Ullucci, eds. A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer. BJS 358. Brown Judaic Studies, 2015.
Saldarini, Anthony J. Scholastic Rabbinism: A Literary Study of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan. BJS 14. Scholars Press, 1982.
Sly, Dorothy. Philo’s Perception of Women. BJS 209. Brown Judaic Studies, 1990.
Lim, Timothy H. When Texts Are Canonized. BJS 359. Brown Judaic Studies, 2017.
Diner, Hasia R. How America Met the Jews. BJS 360. Brown Judaic Studies, 2017.
Olyan, Saul M., ed. Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible. BJS 361. Brown Judaic Studies, 2018.
Herman, Geoffrey, and Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, eds. The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World. BJS 362. Brown Judaic Studies, 2018.
Satlow, Michael L. Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen. BJS 363. Brown Judaic Studies, 2018.
Holtz, Shalom E. Praying Legally. BJS 364. Brown Judaic Studies, 2019.
Bartal, Israel. Tangled Roots: the Emergence of Israeli Culture. BJS 365. Brown Judaic Studies, 2020.
Halbertal, Moshe. The Birth of Doubt: Confronting Uncertainty in Early Rabbinic Literature. BJS 366. Brown Judaic Studies, 2020.
Rubenstein, Jeffrey L., ed. Studies in Rabbinic Narratives. Vol. 1. BJS 367. Brown Judaic Studies, 2021.
Olyan, Saul M., and Jordan D. Rosenblum, eds. Animals and the Law in Antiquity. BJS 368. Brown Judaic Studies, 2021.
Kiperwasser, Reuven. Going West: Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture. BJS 369. Brown Judaic Studies, 2021.
Landman, Yael. Legal Writing, Legal Practice: The Biblical Bailment Law and Divine Justice. BJS 370. Brown Judaic Studies, 2022.
Kessler, Samuel Joseph. The Formation of a Modern Rabbi: The Life and Times of the Viennese Scholar and Preacher Adolf Jellinek. BJS 371. Brown Judaic Studies, 2022.
Bakhos, Carol, and Alyssa M. Gray, eds. Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin. BJS 372. Brown Judaic Studies, 2024.