Overview :A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions o... Read More
Overview :What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these... Read More
Overview :There are two major themes running through the essays reprinted in this book: the first is the typological relation of rabbinic Judaism to C... Read More
Overview :A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of di... Read More
Overview :The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate ... Read More
Overview :Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism-that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision... Read More
Overview :In July 2008 a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of... Read More
Overview :Proceeding by means of intensive readings of passages from the early midrash on Exodus The Mekilta, Boyarin proposes a new theory of midrash... Read More
Overview :Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical pictu... Read More
Overview :The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-S... Read More
Overview :Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul-in his ... Read More
Overview :In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model ... Read More