Professor
Daniel Boyarin
University of California, Berkeley
Theologian; Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Religious Studies
Elected
2005
Specialist in Talmudic culture and (more recently) the intersections of early Judaism and early Christianity. Working most lately on questions having to do with the use of modern categories, such as "religion" or "Judaism" to pre-modern cultures that did not have these categories or concepts. Author of twelve books and over one hundred articles and essays concerning Talmudic interpretation, martyrdom in Judaism and Christianity, constructions of heresy, the separation of Judeo-Christianity, the invention of "religion, and the history of sexuality.
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