Daniel Boyarin Books
Socrates And The Fat Rabbis
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 combi...
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Queer Theory And The Jewish Question
By Ann Pellegrini, Daniel Itzkovitz, Daniel Boyarin, Boyarin, Daniel, Itzkovitz, Daniel, Pellegrini, Ann
It would be an easy, and incorrect, presumption to see this amazing, diverse collection of essays as simply proclaiming: out of the closet and into the Kabala. But the enigmatic, interrelated recog...
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Queer Theory And The Jewish Question
By Ann Pellegrini, Daniel Itzkovitz, Daniel Boyarin, Boyarin, Daniel, Itzkovitz, Daniel, Pellegrini, Ann
It would be an easy, and incorrect, presumption to see this amazing, diverse collection of essays as simply proclaiming: out of the closet and into the Kabala. But the enigmatic, interrelated recog...
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Intertextuality And The Reading Of Midrash
Toward A New Theory Of Midrash -- Reciting The Torah: The Function Of Quotation In The Midrash -- Textual Heterogeneity In The Torah And The Dialectic Of The Mekilta: The Midrash Vs. Source Critici...
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Intertextuality And The Reading Of Midrash
Toward A New Theory Of Midrash -- Reciting The Torah: The Function Of Quotation In The Midrash -- Textual Heterogeneity In The Torah And The Dialectic Of The Mekilta: The Midrash Vs. Source Critici...
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Carnal Israel: Reading Sex In Talmudic Culture
Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism—that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church—Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judais...
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A Radical Jew: Paul And The Politics Of Identity
Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul--in his dramatic conversion to Christianity--to such a radical c...
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Unheroic Conduct: The Rise Of Heterosexuality And The Invention Of The Jewish Man
The Western Notion Of The Aggressive, Sexually Dominant Male And The Passive Female, As Daniel Boyarin Makes Clear, Is Not Universal. Analyzing Ancient And Modern Texts, He Recovers The Studious An...
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