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The Jewish Gospels

The Story of the Jewish Christ

by Daniel Boyarin ...

"[A] fascinating recasting of the story of Jesus." —Elliot Wolfson, New York UniversityIn 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 Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Commenting on this startling discovery at the time, noted Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin ... Read more

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"[A] fascinating recasting of the story of Jesus." —Elliot Wolfson, New York UniversityIn 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 Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Commenting on this startling discovery at the time, noted Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin
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Imagine No Religion

How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities

by Carlin A. Barton, Daniel Boyarin ...

"Shed[s] new light on the fascinating transformations of these words [religio, threskeia] in the shadow of Roman imperial power." —Brent Nongbri, award-winning author of God's LibraryWhat do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad ... Read more

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"Shed[s] new light on the fascinating transformations of these words [religio, threskeia] in the shadow of Roman imperial power." —Brent Nongbri, award-winning author of God's LibraryWhat do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad
... Read more
Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

by Daniel Boyarin ...

What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship.In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, ... Read more

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What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship.In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis,
... Read more
Border Lines

The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity

by Daniel Boyarin ...

Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been ... Read more

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The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been
... Read more
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

Edited by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini ...

Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much ... Read more

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The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much
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The No-State Solution

A Jewish Manifesto

by Daniel Boyarin ...

**A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation ... Read more

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**A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation
... Read more

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The Message of Paul the Apostle within Second Temple Judaism

by Michael Bachmann, Daniel Boyarin, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Shayna Sheinfeld, J. Brian Tucker, Isaac W. Oliver, František Ábel, William S. Campbell, Kathy Ehrensperger, Paula Fredriksen0, Jörg Frey1 ...

Noting that a traditional understanding of Paul as “convert” from Judaism has fueled false and often dangerous stereotypes of Judaism, and that the so-called “new perspective on Paul” has not completely escaped these stereotypes, František Ábel has gathered leading international scholars to test the hypotheses of the more recent “Paul within Judaism” movement. Though hardly monolithic in their ... Read more

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Noting that a traditional understanding of Paul as “convert” from Judaism has fueled false and often dangerous stereotypes of Judaism, and that the so-called “new perspective on Paul” has not completely escaped these stereotypes, František Ábel has gathered leading international scholars to test the hypotheses of the more recent “Paul within Judaism” movement. Though hardly monolithic in their
... Read more
Judaism

The Genealogy of a Modern Notion

by Daniel Boyarin ...

Series series Key Words in Jewish Studies
Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of “Judaism”—an essential key word in Jewish Studies—as we understand it today. Boyarin argues that although the world treats the word “Judaism” as appropriate for naming ... Read more

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Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of “Judaism”—an essential key word in Jewish Studies—as we understand it today. Boyarin argues that although the world treats the word “Judaism” as appropriate for naming
... Read more
Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries

Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity

by Kenneth Atkinson, Michael Bachmann, Gabriele Boccaccini, Daniel Boyarin, Ruben A. Bühner, Hans Förster, Stefan Krauter, Istvan M. Ledán, Eric Noffke, Pavel Paluchník, J. Brian Tucker0, Valéria Terézia Danciaková1, Jirí Lukeš2, James H. Charlesworth3, Joshua D. Garroway4, Karl Olav Sandnes5, František Ábel7, Kathy Ehrensperger8, Paul B. Duff9, Neil Elliott0 ...

Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity examines the historical context of Paul and the way Paul's Jewish heritage was received. Contributors take into consideration the aftermath of the Jewish War and its impact on the development of the Jesus movement and early Christian-Jewish relations in the following period. The chapters come ... Read more

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Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity examines the historical context of Paul and the way Paul's Jewish heritage was received. Contributors take into consideration the aftermath of the Jewish War and its impact on the development of the Jesus movement and early Christian-Jewish relations in the following period. The chapters come
... Read more
Cultural Translation and Receptions of Paul in the First Four Centuries

by František Ábel, Professor Kenneth Atkinson, Michael Bachmann, Daniel Boyarin, Ruben A. Bühner, Simon Butticaz, William S. Campbell, James Hamilton Charlesworth, Valéria Terézia Danciaková, Dr. Kathy Ehrensperger0, Hans Förster1, Joshua D. Garroway2, Sandra Huebenthal3, Professor. Dr. Esther Kobel4, Stefan Krauter5, Jirí Lukeš6, Jakub Michal Pogonowski7, Michaela Prihracki8, Michael Scott Robertson9, Dr. J. Brian Tucker0 ...

There are two overlapping themes which serve as the focus of Cultural Translation and Receptions of Paul in the First Four Centuries : (a) “reception” of the apostle Paul in subsequent Christian traditions, and (b) the hypothesis that while Paul himself continued to think as a Jew, he was subsequently re-interpreted by non-Jews in non-Jewish and anti-Jewish ways: the so-called “Paul within Judaism ... Read more

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There are two overlapping themes which serve as the focus of Cultural Translation and Receptions of Paul in the First Four Centuries : (a) “reception” of the apostle Paul in subsequent Christian traditions, and (b) the hypothesis that while Paul himself continued to think as a Jew, he was subsequently re-interpreted by non-Jews in non-Jewish and anti-Jewish ways: the so-called “Paul within Judaism
... Read more
Border Lines

The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity

by Daniel Boyarin ...

Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been ... Read more

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The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been
... Read more
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

Justice Beyond and Between

by Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner, Saba Mahmood, Wendy Brown, Daniel Boyarin, Ramona Naddaff, Kathryn Abrams0, Christopher Tomlins1, Sara Ludin2, Sarah Song3, Beth Piatote4, Daniel Fisher5, Samera Esmeir6, Rebecca McLennan7 ...

Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints.Looking ... Read more

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For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints.Looking
... Read more

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