"As is well known, Brill Academic Publishers has published a cloth edition of every SBL title since 2002, an arrangement that has both benefited SBL authors and expanded the SBL's publishing presence in the European market. In light of the great success of this partnership, Kent Harold Richards (SBL Executive Director) recently signed an agreement with Brill securing for the SBL the right to publish paperback editions of ten Brill cloth titles each year during the life of the contract. Bob Buller (Editorial Director) is overseeing this project. The first seven titles slated to appear include:
(1) The Book of Ben Sira in Hebrew: A Text Edition of All Extant Hebrew Manuscripts and a Synopsis of All Parallel Hebrew Ben Sira Texts, by Pancratius C. Beentjes;
(2) The Elusive Prophet: The Prophet as a Historical Person, Literary Character and Anonymous Artist, edited by Johannes C. de Moor;
(3) Philo of Alexandria: An Exegete for His Time, by Peder Borgen;
(4) Early Christianity and Classical Culture: Comparative Studies in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe, edited by John T. Fitzgerald, Thomas H. Olbricht, and L. Michael White;
(5) Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephos, Luke-Acts, and Apologetic Historiography, by Gregory E. Sterling;
(6) Studies in Josephus' Rewritten Bible, by Louis H. Feldman; and
(7) The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation, by Albert I. Baumgarten."
This is to be welcomed, and as the list demonstrates, several volumes of interest for students of Philo and Diaspora Judaism are included.
Publications staff (bob.buller@sbl-site.org) welcome suggestions for future SBL paperback editions of Brill titles. By agreement, the SBL will not publish a paperback edition until two years after a title's original release, and Brill reserves the right to decline or postpone SBL publication of certain Brill titles.
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