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 But...
Boyarin here provides a new perspective for understanding Midrash. Indeed, he succeeds at providing a convincing model of reading midrash, and the interpretations he is able make are thicker and of more interest than simply attributing different sayings to different authors and contexts. Boyari...
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 o...
Makowski 1990. Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage: Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer. State University of New York Series in Medieval Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press. Winkler, John 1989. The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Gr...
The conventional view, of course, is that “Son of God” is the decisive title for Jesus. It is by this title that Jesus is held to be part of the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is as the Son of God that he is worshipped as divine; it is as the Son of God that he was deemed to have been ...