Daniel Boyarin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3621755 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Daniel Boyarin |
| NOMBRES | Daniel |
| APELLIDO | Boyarin |
| FIRMA | BOYARIN D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 207 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The New Jewish Question
“Strong Apologies”
The paper discusses whether there was a polemic about martyrdom between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity. The author suggests that we can see the story of Rabbi Akiva and Papos ben Yehuda in the Babylonian Talmud as part of a controversy between Jews and Christians about the question of whose martyrdom is bigger and could be used as proof of the truth of their doctrine. In this light, the dialogue in prison between Rabbi Akiva and Papos abou…
The Satanic Verses and Evil in Babylonia
In this article, I study several midrashic passages preserved in the Babylonian Talmud that deal with Satan. The verses that they are based on are nearly all drawn from the book of Job. I find that these midrashim strongly support the conclusions of Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s monograph Demonic Desires in several ways, notably that Satan is not the font and origin of evil in the world as he is in other branches or wings of the ancient Jewish imagination
The New Jewish Question
In this article I attempt to lay out at least the bones of an argument for a shift in the terms of world Jewish life. Against the Hobson’s choice of “religion” or “state,” I offer an older paradigm of diaspora nation, the Yiddishe Folk. Because I am opposed to both the mononational state and cosmopolitanism (of the classic Appiah-like variety), I work out a description (not fully defined) of diaspora that comprises dual loyalties, to the place wh…
What I Have Learned
I will begin by thanking Professor Quayson and all of the contributors to this forum with the deepest of gratitude. I deem it a great privilege to have been engaged with in such depth and seriousness by such a group of superb interlocutors, all of whom seem nearly completely to have understood my project, even when more negatively reflecting on it. As a version of the Talmud would have said: it is far better to be understood by one’s opponents th…
Judaism
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 an alleged religion of the Jews, it is in fact a Ch…
Dīn as Torah
The book known in Hebrew as the Kuzari from twelfth-century Sefardic Spain and one of its iconic texts was written by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi and is called in Arabic, כתאב אלרד ואלדליל פי אלדין אלד'ליל , usually translated with the English “religion,” as “The Book of Refutation and Proof of the Despised Religion.” Modern Hebrew translators give דת dat for Arabic דין dīn , just as English translators give “religion,” presupposing that which has to be …
The Talmud - A Personal Take
This collection of Daniel Boyarin's previously uncollected essays on the Talmud represents the different methods and lines of inquiry that have animated his work on that text over the last four decades. Ranging and changing from linguistic work to work on sex and gender to the relations between formative Judaism and Christianity to the literary genres of the Talmud in the Hellenistic context, he gives an account of multiple questions and provocat…
The Concept of Cultural Translation in American Religious Studies
Relating First Century Judaism and Christianity
After nearly two millennia of more or less parallel separate development, it is difficult for contemporary society to think of Judaism and Christianity as anything other than very distinct and very
Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
Book Review| August 01 2013 Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation Pagels, Elaine, Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation (New York: Viking, 2012), 246 pp. Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 576. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2282053 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Re…
Daniel 7, Intertextuality, and the History of Israel's Cult
Professor Hanan Eshel, in memoriam Ancient and modern readers have offered two basic interpretations of the “[One like a] Son of Man” ( ) in Dan 7:13. One line of interpretation holds that the One like a Son of Man is a symbol of a collective, namely, the faithful Israelites at the time of the Maccabean revolt. 1 The other basic line of interpretation sees the One like a Son of Man as a divine figure of one sort or another, a second God, a son of…
Deadly Dialogue
In this paper it will be argued that Thucydides's Melian Dialogue is best illuminated in the context of Socratic dialogue as given by Plato. Thucydides and Plato take directly oppositional positions on dialogue versus debate or philosophy versus rhetoric
How Enoch Can Teach Us about Jesus
In diesem Aufsatz vertrete ich die Auffassung, dass die Bilderreden des Henoch äußerst bedeutsam für die Interpretation des Menschensohns in den Evangelien sind, v.a. angesichts der sehr plausiblen Annahme, dass der Text etwa zeitgleich oder wenig später als das Markusevangelium entstanden ist. In den Bilderreden ist eine klare Entwicklungslinie der Menschensohnfigur zu sehen, beruhend auf einem Midrasch von Daniel 7, was die These einer solchen …
Origen as theorist of allegory
Within an early Christian context, one finds allegory judged by at least two quite different measures. It is, on the one hand, the powerful engine of Pauline reinterpretation that makes the Hebrew Bible into an "old" testament. On the other, it is a non-literal way of reading that raises a certain anxiety within a set of traditions that at regular intervals insist on different forms of literalism. Both kinds of measures are regularly applied to t…
Beyond Judaisms
My specific project in this paper is to combine several related and notorious questions in the history of Judaism into one: What is the nexus among the semi-divine (or high angel) figure known in the Talmud as Metatron, the figure of the exalted Enoch in the Enoch books (1-3 Enoch!), "The One Like a Son of Man" of Daniel, Jesus, the Son of Man, and the rabbinically named heresy of "Two Powers/Sovereignties in Heaven?" I believe that in order to m…
Patron Saint of the Incongruous
The Talmud as a fat Rabbi
In this article it will be argued that the Menippean satire (broadly understood in Bakhtinian terms) provides a most, if not the most, significant formal and perhaps historical context for reading the Babylonian Talmud (ca. sixth century after Christ). Some theoretical considerations on the role of agency in dialogism (intertextuality) are lifted up as well
The Scandal of Sophism
Research Article| August 01 2007 The Scandal of Sophism: On the Epistemological Seriousness of Relativism Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 315–336. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Boyarin; The Scandal of Sophism: On the Epistemological Seriousness of Relativism. Common …
Apartheid Comparative Religion in the Second Century
Research Article| January 01 2006 Apartheid Comparative Religion in the Second Century: Some Theory and a Case Study Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (1): 3–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-36-1-3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question
This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each
Hybridity and Heresy
Hybridity as Subversion of Orthodoxy? Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
Hybridity inflects Jewish and Christian identity in precisely the places where ‘‘purity’’ is most forcefully inscribed. In the formative texts of both traditions, heresy is pushed ‘‘outside’’ via its syncretistic representation, even as the other religion is brought ‘‘inside’’ through its close identification with heresy. Athanasius of Alexandria’s 4th-century construction of doctrinal orthodoxy in opposition to the ‘‘Judaizing’’ heresy of Arius …
Response to Leon Wieseltier
Response to Leon Wieseltier Daniel Boyarin (bio) Leon wieseltier's attack on what he dubs "cultural materialism" in Jewish studies neatly exposes the ideological stakes in his approach to the field. Jewish chosenness must be preserved at all costs. G-d forfend that the Jews should be subject to the same kinds of scholarly investigation as all other tribes. Someone might reveal the uncomfortable fact that Jews are members of homo sapiens, not dise…
Border Lines
"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism. . . . In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines , the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."—Jack Miles, Commonweal
Diaspora
Introduction
THE UNTIMELY DEATH of Michel Foucault in 1984 left unfinished his influential and controversial multivolume The History of Sexuality. Indeed, volumes 2 and 3 appeared on bookshop shelves in Paris only a few days before his death. The fourth volume, entitled Les Aveux de la chair (Confessions of the flesh) and devoted to the discourse of sexuality in late ancient Christianity, remains at Foucault's request unpublished. 1 In the intervening years s…
This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel
The Christian Invention of Judaism
In this paper, it is argued that a significant development takes place in the second half of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth, a development that we might call the orthodox Christian invention of religion. The paper examines effects of this development as it touches on Jewish religious historyas well
Freud's Baby, Fliess's Maybe
Research Article| April 01 1995 Freud's Baby, Fliess's Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the Invention of Oedipus Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (1_and_2): 115–147. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Boyarin; Freud's Baby, Fliess's Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the Invention…
Toward a Dialogue with Edward Said
The Eye in the Torah
Justin Martyr Invents Judaism
The historiography of Judaism in the rabbinic period (together with its implications for the history of Christianity) had been, until quite recently, founded on the assumption that the kind of historical information that rabbinic legends could yield was somehow directly related to the narrative contents that they displayed, which were understood as more or less reliable depending on the critical sensibility of the scholar. This scholarship was no…
Response to Allan Arkush
ITtnheroic Conduct is, as Arkush readily avows, not a work of history f but a polemical essay based on a certain interpretation, to be sure, of an aspect of Jewish history. As such, it does not pretend to answer to canons of completeness or comprehensiveness that a history of moder Judaism or of Zionism would conventionally be required to. I am trying to shine a flashlight onto some dark corers of recentJewish history, because I believe that brin…
A Tale of Two Synods
The Corinthian Body
Book Review| April 01 1997 The Corinthian Body The Corinthian Body, Dale B. Martin. Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1997) 116 (1): 152–155. https://doi.org/10.2307/3266766 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Boyarin; The Corinthian Body. Journal of Biblical Literature 1 January 1997; 116 (1):…
Homotopia
Research Article| July 01 1995 Homotopia: The Feminized Jewish Man and the Lives of Women in Late Antiquity Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin daniel boyarin is the Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture and a member of the Departments of Near Eastern and Women's Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent books are Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture and A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (both U of Ca…
Introduction
It would be fair to say that, with only certain exceptions, scholarship on Jews and Jewish culture has reproduced cultural conditions of Jewish existence as marginal and ghettoized. Wissenschaft desJudentums, dominant paradigm of Jewish studies from nineteenth century until recently, has done very little to integrate study of Jewish culture with history and theory of culture in general or to bring Jewish cultural materials and practices to bear o…
The Concept of Cultural Translation in American Religious Studies
Beyond Judaisms
My specific project in this paper is to combine several related and notorious questions in the history of Judaism into one: What is the nexus among the semi-divine (or high angel) figure known in the Talmud as Metatron, the figure of the exalted Enoch in the Enoch books (1-3 Enoch!), "The One Like a Son of Man" of Daniel, Jesus, the Son of Man, and the rabbinically named heresy of "Two Powers/Sovereignties in Heaven?" I believe that in order to m…
A Tale of Two Synods
Paul and the Genealogy of Gender
Research Article| January 01 1993 Paul and the Genealogy of Gender Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1993) 41: 1–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928675 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Daniel Boyarin; P…
The Sea Resists
The text, however, as we possess it today, will tell us enough about its own vicissitudes. Two mutually opposed treatments have left their traces on it. On the one hand it has been subjected to revisions which have falsified it in the sense of their secret aims, have mutilated it and amplified it and have even changed it into its reverse; on the other hand a solicitous piety has presided over it and has sought to preserve everything as it was, no…
Old Wine in New Bottles
The Soviet Structuralists call these phenomena poetic quotations. They are much more important in Mandel'stam's work than it might seem from these few passing remarks for they function as tools for building the cultural paradigm, for superimposing the past upon the present, thus reversing the flow of time. The poet himself conceived of poetry as a tool by means of which the past can re-enter the present. Poetry is the plough tearing open and turn…
On the History of the Babylonian Jewish Aramaic Reading Traditions
Penitential Liturgy in 4 Ezra
PENITENTIAL LITURGY IN 4 EZRA BY D. BOYARIN New York, N. Y. Within a remarkably short and compact section of the Pseudepi- graphon 4 Ezra (7,102 to 8,36) 1) one finds a group of reflections of Jewish penitential (Selibot) liturgy 2), which together include virtually all of the elements of the most ancient known form of the Selihot service 3). These are listed by GOLDSCHMIDT as recitation of the "thirteen attributes;" "Confession;" litanies of the…
On the History of the Babylonian Jewish Aramaic Reading Traditions
A Manual of Babylonian Jewish Aramaic . David Marcus
Analogy vs. Anomaly in Midrashic Hermeneutic
L'A. se propose de montrer que, dans les traites Wayyasa et Amaleq de la Mekhilta, il y a un conflit permanent entre deux modes d'interpretation : entre le sens simple et le midrash. Avec le sens simple, apparaitrait l'influence de modeles grecs
Old Wine in New Bottles
The Soviet Structuralists call these phenomena poetic quotations. They are much more important in Mandel'stam's work than it might seem from these few passing remarks for they function as tools for building the cultural paradigm, for superimposing the past upon the present, thus reversing the flow of time. The poet himself conceived of poetry as a tool by means of which the past can re-enter the present. Poetry is the plough tearing open and turn…
The Sea Resists
The text, however, as we possess it today, will tell us enough about its own vicissitudes. Two mutually opposed treatments have left their traces on it. On the one hand it has been subjected to revisions which have falsified it in the sense of their secret aims, have mutilated it and amplified it and have even changed it into its reverse; on the other hand a solicitous piety has presided over it and has sought to preserve everything as it was, no…
Language Inscribed by History on the Bodies of Living Beings
Research Article| January 01 1989 "Language Inscribed by History on the Bodies of Living Beings": Midrash and Martyrdom Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 25: 139–151. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928471 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissio…
Toward a Dialogue with Edward Said
The Politics of Biblical Narratology
The Eye in the Torah
"Boyarin's "Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash
Reading Androcentrism against the Grain
The more we learn about comparable gender-segregated, pre-industrial societies, particularly in the Mediterranean area, the more it seems that most of men's observations and moral judgments about women and sex and so forth have minimal descriptive validity and are best understood as coffeehouse talk, addressed to men themselves. Women, we should emphasize, in all their separate groupings by age, neighborhood, and class, may differ widely from eac…
Internal Opposition in Talmudic Literature
Rabbi Akiva says: Anyone who commits murder diminishes the image of God, as it says, One who spills blood of a human, for the sake of the his blood will be spilt, for in the image of God, He made the human [Gen. 9.6]. Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah says: Anyone who does not engage in procreation diminishes the Divine Image, for it says, In the image of God, He made the human [Gen. 9.6], and it is written [immediately following], 'And as for you, be fr…
Response to Herbert Basser
On the Status of the Tannaitic Midrashim
THE PRESENT WORK BY JACOB NEUSNER is part of a gigantic project of redescription of the history of Judaism in Late Antiquity. Since each volume of this project essentially recapitulates the claims of the whole with different emphases, any volume can serve as an introduction to the whole project, and a review of any part is, in effect, an evaluation of the whole. Neusner makes very dramatic and impressive claims for his research on the history of …
This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel
Carnal Israel
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 Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity. The body—specifically, the sexualized body—could not be renounced, for the Rabbis believed as a religious principle in the generation of …
Placing Reading
The Subversion of the Jews
Commentaire sur trois ouvrages consacres a l'histoire de l'hermeneutique occidentale et a son importance pour la theorie litteraire. L'A. trouve particulierement reussie l'interpretation des Lettres de Saint Paul faite par R. Hays dans « Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul » (1989).Pour sa part, dans « Prodigal Son/Elder Brother » (1991), J.Robbins donne la reponse moderne juive la plus eloquente a l'hermeneutique chretienne de supersessio…
Paul and the Genealogy of Gender
Research Article| January 01 1993 Paul and the Genealogy of Gender Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1993) 41: 1–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928675 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Daniel Boyarin; P…
Diaspora
Radical Jew
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 critique of Jewish culture? Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and female in Christ," demonstrates the genius of Christianity: its concern for all people. The genius of Judaism is its validation of genealogy and cultural, e…
Epater L'Embourgeoisement
Introduction
It would be fair to say that, with only certain exceptions, scholarship on Jews and Jewish culture has reproduced cultural conditions of Jewish existence as marginal and ghettoized. Wissenschaft desJudentums, dominant paradigm of Jewish studies from nineteenth century until recently, has done very little to integrate study of Jewish culture with history and theory of culture in general or to bring Jewish cultural materials and practices to bear o…
Midrash in Parables
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