Daniel Boyarin: 10 books

Book cover of Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009

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...
Book cover of The Jewish Gospels
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012

“[A] fascinating recasting of the story of Jesus.” —Elliot Wolfson, New York University 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 Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the...
Book cover of Border Lines

Border Lines

The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity

by Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010

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...
Book cover of Judaism

Judaism

The Genealogy of a Modern Notion

by Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018

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...
Book cover of Une vie dans le Talmud
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: French
Release Date: January 13, 2016

Qu'est-ce qu'être juif ? le judaïsme ? comment étudie-t-on encore aujourd'hui le Talmud ? ses relations avec la culture contemporaine ? Clémence Boulouque, romancière, journaliste, est passionnée d'études juives. Elle rencontre, dans ce livre, un des plus célèbres savants contemporains, spécialiste...
Book cover of Il vangelo ebraico

Il vangelo ebraico

Le vere origini del cristianesimo

by Daniel Boyarin
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 26, 2012

Nel luglio del 2008 il "New York Times" pubblicava in prima pagina la notizia del ritrovamento di un'antica tavola ebraica, risalente a prima della nascita di Cristo, che riportava una profezia: l'annuncio di un Messia che sarebbe risorto tre giorni dopo la morte. È solo uno dei tasselli...
Book cover of Imagine No Religion

Imagine No Religion

How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities

by Daniel Boyarin, Carlin A. Barton
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016

What 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 meanings of the Latin and Greek words religio and thrēskeia, frequently and reductively...
Book cover of Le Christ juif
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2017

" Dans ce livre, je vais raconter l'histoire d'une époque où Juifs et chrétiens étaient beaucoup plus mélangés les uns avec les autres qu'ils ne le sont aujourd'hui. Une époque où il y avait beaucoup de Juifs qui croyaient en quelque chose de très similaire au Père et au Fils et même...
Book cover of Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

Justice Beyond and Between

by Saba Mahmood, Wendy Brown, Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

An impressive line-up of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines – law, but also anthropology, rhetoric, literature, history, geography, and race and ethnic studies.
Book cover of Une patrie portative. Le Talmud de Babylone comme diaspora
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Imprégné de mélancolie, le terme " diaspora " a souvent été utilisé pour décrire la dispersion du peuple juif à travers les nations et la fin d'une identité certes problématique entre le peuple d'Israël et la Terre promise qui l'a porté. Et si les Juifs,
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