Last year Brill published a 954 pages large volume of Louis H. Feldman's studies. I see I have not mentioned it before on this blog (for reasons I can't understand...), but here it comes:
"This book is a collection of 26 previously published articles, with a number of additions and corrections, and with a long new introduction on "The Influence of Hellenism on Jews in Palestine in the Hellenistic Period." The articles deal with such subjects as "Homer and the Near East," "The Septuagint," "Hatred and Attraction to the Jews in Classical Antiquity," "Conversion to Judaism in Classical Antiquity," "Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus, and Theodotus on the Rape of Dinah," "The Influence of the Greek Tragedians on Josephus," "Josephus' Biblical Paraphrase as a Commentary on Contemporary Issues," "Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers: Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's Lycurgus," "Rabbinic Insights on the Decline and Forthcoming Fall of the Roman Empire."
The Brill homepage also has a Table of Contents available on their site, listing the 26 studies included in this volume.
I congratulate Feldman on the publication of these studies, hoping that it may help many other readers getting access to his many erudite articles and studies.
However, the price is disturbing; US$ 279.00 is too much for most young research fellows or scholars. My wife would be mad for days, if I spent so much on a single volume....
I always keep wondering, when seeing such prices; how is it possible to make books becoming so expensive in the age of computer technology?
3 comments:
you have to understand, Brill doesn't publish for you.
We, as scholars, are not its consumer target.
Bril's traget is our libraries.
At such price, scholars who need the books (and can't afford them) go to their libraries and request them for purchase.
As an author who has published two books on Brill, and participated in two more, I know their practice. But they would probably not agree that libraries are their primary targets. And in addition; how come German books are so much more expensive than those for US publishers, even when they are written in English? Nevertheless, Brill is an excellent publisher, but expensive.
Sorry, the last 'for' in my comment above should be 'from'.
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