Genesis Rabbah is the commentary on the book of Genesis produced by the Rabbinic sages of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. It provides the Judaic reading of the book of Genesis in light of historical events of that critical period, when the Roman Emperor, Constantine, legalized Christianity.

Genesis Rabbah: The Judaic Commentary to the Book of Genesis- A New American Translation, Vol. 1: Parashiyyot One through Thirty-Three on Genesis 1:1 to 8:14 (Brown Judaic Studies, No. 104)

Religion & Spirituality

NEUSNER, JACOB

Judaism

Brown University

China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.s. Response (The Choice Program)

Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies

One of the Choices Program from the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University www.choices.edu

Iran Through the Looking Glass : History, Reform, and Revolution

History

Middle East

History textbook, for 8-10th grade students. Covers the founding of America.

A More Perfect Union: American Independence and the Constitution (The Choices Program)

Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

Americas

Just as women in the Bible have been overlooked for much of interpretative history, children in the Bible have fascinating and compelling stories that scholars have largely ignored. This groundbreaking book focuses on children in the Hebrew Bible. The author argues that the biblical writers recognized children as different from adults and used these ideas to shape their stories. She provides conceptual and historical frameworks for understanding children and childhood, and examines Hebrew terms related to children and youth. The book introduces a new methodology of childist interpretation and applies it to the Elisha cycle (2 Kings 2-8), which contains forty-nine child characters. Combining literary insights with social-scientific evidence, the author demonstrates that children play critical roles in the world of the text as well as the culture that produced it.

Valuable and Vulnerable: Children in the Hebrew Bible, Especially the Elisha Cycle (Brown Judaic Studies) (Brown Judiac Studies)

Julie Faith Parker

Christian Books & Bibles

Worship, Women and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch (Brown Judaic Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

John J. Collins

T. M. Lemos

Saul M. Olyan

Social Sciences

Ross Kraemer, Professor Emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University, has been a trailblazer in the areas of women and religion, Jews and Judaism, and earliest Christianity in the ancient Mediterranean. Her astute readings and painstaking analysis of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence demonstrate extensive and rigorous command of the technical scholarship. Furthermore, her relentless reconsideration of inherited models have continually defined and redefined the contours of scholarship in ancient Mediterranean religions. While much of her research focuses on women's religions in the Greco-Roman world, her interests also extend to questions of theory and method in the academic study of religion, cross-cultural and trans-historical studies of women and religion, and religion and modern media. To honor her remarkable contributions, this volume of essays was conceived and produced by students, colleagues, and friends from the total span of her career, bearing witness to the breadth of her own scholarly interests.

A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer (Brown Judaic Studies)

Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Nathaniel DesRosiers

Shira L. Lander

Jacqueline Pastis

Daniel Ullucci

Ancient Civilizations

Explore how American conditions and Jewish circumstances collided in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries In this new book award-winning author Hasia R. Diner explores the issues behind why European Jews overwhelmingly chose to move to the United States between the 1820s and 1920s. Unlike books that tend to romanticize American freedom as the force behind this period of migration or that tend to focus on Jewish contributions to America or that concentrate on how Jewish traditions of literacy and self-help made it possible for them to succeed, Diner instead focuses on aspects of American life and history that made it the preferred destination for 90 percent of European Jews. Features: <ul>
<li>Examination of the realities of race, immigration, color, money, economic development, politics, and religion in America</li> <li>Exploration of an America agenda that sought out white immigrants to help stoke economic development and that valued religion as a force for morality</li>
</ul>

How America Met the Jews (Brown Judaic Studies)

Hasia R. Diner

Explore how American conditions and Jewish circumstances collided in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries In this new book award-winning author Hasia R. Diner explores the issues behind why European Jews overwhelmingly chose to move to the United States between the 1820s and 1920s. Unlike books that tend to romanticize American freedom as the force behind this period of migration or that tend to focus on Jewish contributions to America or that concentrate on how Jewish traditions of literacy and self-help made it possible for them to succeed, Diner instead focuses on aspects of American life and history that made it the preferred destination for 90 percent of European Jews. Features: <ul>
<li>Examination of the realities of race, immigration, color, money, economic development, politics, and religion in America</li> <li>Exploration of an America agenda that sought out white immigrants to help stoke economic development and that valued religion as a force for morality</li>
</ul>

How America Met the Jews (Brown Judiac Studies)

Essays that engage the scholarship of Shaye J. D. Cohen The essays in Strength to Strength honor Shaye J. D. Cohen across a range of ancient to modern topics. The essays seek to create an ongoing conversation on issues of identity, cultural interchange, and Jewish literature and history in antiquity, all areas of particular interest for Cohen. Contributors include Moshe J. Bernstein, Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Cohen, Yaakov Elman, Ari Finkelstein, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Steven D. Fraade, Isaiah M. Gafni, Gregg E. Gardner, William K. Gilders, Martin Goodman, Leonard Gordon, Edward L. Greenstein, Erich S. Gruen, Judith Hauptman, Jan Willem van Henten, Catherine Hezser, Tal Ilan, Richard Kalmin, Yishai Kiel, Ross S. Kraemer, Hayim Lapin, Lee I. Levine, Timothy H. Lim, Duncan E. MacRae, Ivan Marcus, Mahnaz Moazami, Rachel Neis, Saul M. Olyan, Jonathan J. Price, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Michael L. Satlow, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Daniel R. Schwartz, Joshua Schwartz, Karen Stern, Stanley Stowers, and Burton L. Visotzky. Features: <ul>
<li>A full bibliography of Cohen's published works</li> <li>An essay on the contributions of Cohen</li>
</ul>

Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen (Brown Judaic Studies) (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 363)

Michael L. Satlow

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