Professor Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies Department

University of California, Berkeley \| Near Eastern Studies Department
	Professor Daniel Boyarin

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EMPLOYMENT

9/73	Appointed teaching staff of Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
9/75-6/81	Assistant Professor in Talmud.
9/78-9/87	Senior Lecturer Hebrew Language and Literature, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Dept. Chairman,
(1981-83)	Associate Professor, 4-85.
9/79-8/80	Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
9/83-6/90	Senior Lecturer Talmud, Bar-Ilan University, Associate Professor (Tenured), 5-86.
9/84-6/85	Visiting Associate Professor, Near East Languages and Literatures, Yale University.
7-8/85; 88	Visiting Professor of Rabbinic Literature, Yeshiva University.
July 1990-	Full Professor of Talmudic Culture and holder of the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric (from Fall 2001), University of California at Berkeley.
Sept. 1991-	Adjunct Full Professor, Area 8 (Comparative Religion), Graduate Theological Union.
Sum 1992-	Visiting Professor of Talmud, Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Sum 1996	Co-director NEH Summer seminar for College Teachers, Visiting Professor of Talmud, Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Spring 2000	Visiting Professor of New Testament and Judaic Origins, Harvard Divinity School.
Spring 2002	Richard and Susan Master Invited Professor, Centro di Studi Giudaici Cardinal Bea, Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Rome.

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SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Chair: Jewish Studies Committee, UC @ Berkeley, 1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1995-1996, 2000-2001.
Member: Academic Senate Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities, 1991-1992.
Member: Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1991-92.
Member: Middle East Center Executive Committee and undergraduate advisor, 1991-95.
Chair of Graduate Student Advisors: Near Eastern Studies, 1991-95.
Director Program in Religious Studies, 1991-94.
Chair, Joint Graduate Program in Jewish Studies, 1995-1996.
Director, Study Center in Jerusalem, 1996-1998.
Chair, Joint Graduate Program in Jewish Studies, 2000-2001.
Acting Chair, Near Eastern Studies, Fall 2000.
Chair, Near Eastern Studies, Fall 2002- .

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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Co-director Center for Hermeneutical Studies, 1992-1996.
Evaluator of projects for Memorial Foundation in Jewish Studies, 1991-2, 1995-6, 1996-7, 1997-8, 1998-99.
Evaluator of projects for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Outside Reader for Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Early Christian Studies, and Jewish Quarterly Review.
Member Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Sexuality, term 1993-1996.
Associate Editor, Journal of the History of Sexuality, term 1996-1999.
Member Editorial Collective, Theory and Critique (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).
Member, Executive Committee, MLA Division of Religious Approaches to Literature, term 1993-1998.
Convener, Discussion Group on Jewish Cultural Studies, MLA, 1994.
Member, Program Committee, MLA, term 1994-1997.
Member, Advisory Board Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art, Syracuse University Press.
Member, Editorial Board Jewish Quarterly Review.
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Gender and Sexuality, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
Co-editor (with Chana Kronfeld), book series: Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences (until 1997, University of California Press; from 1997, Stanford University Press).
Member, Series Board, Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture, Stanford University Press.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal for the Study of the New Testament.
Member, Editorial Board, From Here, a Hebrew journal of cultural criticism published at Ben-Gurion University.
Member, Editorial Board, Hebrew Studies.
National Advisory Board of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and
Ministry.
Member, Advisory Board of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY (CLAGS).
Member, Editorial Board, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, term 1999-2002.
Appointed director, QueerFilmJournal.
Appointed editorial board, Queeries: A Journal of Queer Studies

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EDUCATION

♦ 6/68 B.A., Goddard College.
♦ 6/71 Master of Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary.
♦ 12/72 M.A. Semitic Languages, Columbia University.
Thesis: The Babylonian Aramaic Verb According to Co~dex Hamburg.
♦ 6/75 Phd. Talmud, Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Dissertation: A Critical Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Nazir (Chapters 1-5).
♦ 73-75 Seminars in Aramaic, Yale and Fordham Universities.
♦ 75-76 Post-doctoral courses in linguistics, Columbia University.
♦ 1976 Visiting scholar, Linguistics Society of America, Summer Institute.
♦ 77-78 Visiting scholar, Department of Semitic Languages, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
♦ Summers 87; 93 participant School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

70-73 Herbert Lehmann Institute of Jewish Theological Seminary.
71-72 President's fellowship, Columbia University.
76 Research grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.
77-78 Research fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities.
78-82 Research grant, Machon Ben Zwi.
79 Dov Sadan Prize, Tel Aviv University.
79 Research grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.
81 Research grant, American Philosophical Society.
84 Visiting scholar, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.
84 Research grant, British Academy of Sciences.
84 Research grant, American Philosophical Society.
84-85 Horace Goldsmith Fellowship, Yale University.
85 Research grant, American Council of Learned Societies.
85 Research grant, Littauer Foundation.
86 Rosenthal Prize in Talmudic Research, Hebrew University.
87 Fellowship to attend School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth University.
88-94 Fellow Institute for Advanced Studies of Shalom Hartman Institute.
90-91 Offered fellowship to Annenberg Institute for Jewish and Near Eastern Studies (declined).
91 Research grant, Littauer Foundation.
92 Research fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities.
92 Offered Research grant, American Philosophical Society (declined).
93 President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California.
93 Fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
95 Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in gay and lesbian studies by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the MLA.
95 David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship in German-Jewish History and Culture, Leo Baeck Institute.
97 Elected Member of Society for New Testament Studies.
2000 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Fall, 2001 Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin.
2002 Jewish Cultural Achievement in Scholarship Award, National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

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INVITED LECTURES

In addition to scholarly papers read at numerous national meetings of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Modern Language Association, the following lectures were delivered in response to invitations from the host institutions:

♦ July, 1988 "Language Inscribed by History on the Bodies of Living Beings," School of Criticism and Theory Lecture Series.
♦ September 1991 "`This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel': Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel," Princeton University.
♦ July, 1993 "Rabbis and their Pals," School of Criticism and Theory Lecture Series.
♦ September, 1993 "Racism, the Talmud, and African American--Jewish Coalition," Emory University.
♦ November, 1993 "Jewish Masochism: Couvade, Castration, and Rabbis in Pain," SUNY Buffalo.
♦ July, 1994 "Freud's Baby, Fliess's Maybe: Homophobia, Antisemitism, and the Invention of Oedipus," School of Criticism and Theory Lecture Series.
♦ July, 1994 "The Colonial Drag: Gender, Zionism, and Mimicry," Geisel Lecture, Dartmouth College.
♦ October, 1994 "Mauschel and Monotheism: The Jew as Off-White Male," Ethyle Wolfe Center for the Humanities, Brooklyn College.
♦ October, 1994 "Cross-Dressing and the Homosocial Couple in Babylonian Judaism," Dept. of Religion, Columbia University (also Princeton University, University of Wisconsin @ Madison, and Johns Hopkins University).
♦ March, 1995 "Bitextuality, Psychoanalysis, Zionism; or, the Ambivalence of the Jewish Phallus," Littauer Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, Duke University.
♦ April, 1995 "What Does a Jew Want?: The Phallus as White Mask," Annual Distinguished Lecture of the Philological Society, Johns Hopkins University.
♦ November, 1995: "Talmud Torah and the Sexual Contract," University of Michigan Series of Lectures in Talmudic Studies.
♦ November, 1995: "Femminization and Its Discontents: Torah-Study as a System for the Exclusion of Women," Rutgers University.
♦ December, 1995: "Retelling the Story of O.; or, Bertha Pappenheim, The Fulfillment of a Jewish Woman's Rebellion," San Diego State.
♦ May, 1996: "The Colonial Drag: Zionism, Gender, and Mimicry," UCLA Modern European History Seminar.
♦ May, 1996: "Goyim Naches; or, The Mentsh and the Jewish Critique of Romance," UCLA Jewish Studies Series.
♦ October, 1996: "Some Lesbians and Nuns Escape: Gender Theory in the First Century," Drew University Theological School.
♦ December, 1996: "Virgin Rabbis: Cultural Affinities and Differences in the Fourth Century," NEH Newberry Library Series of Lectures on Teaching Gender in the Middle Ages.
♦ September, 1997: "The Bartered Word: Midrash and Symbolic Economy," UCHRI, Irvine (also delivered at Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins and at Sheffield University in January, 1998).
♦ January-February, 1998: The Lancaster/Yarnton lectures on Judaism and Other Religions: four lectures entitled overall: "Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism." Also delivered in Jerusalem in April of 1998.
♦ November, 1998: “Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism,” Trinity College, Dublin.
♦ February-March, 1999: “On Stoves, Sex, and Slave-Girls: Rabbinic Orthodoxy and the Definition of Jewish Identity,” UCLA, Williams College, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
♦ March, 1999: “A Tale of Two Synods: Nicaea, Yavneh, and The Early History of Orthodox Judaism,” Kraus Visiting Lectureship in Jewish Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
♦ April, 2000: “The Gospel of the Logos,” Harvard Divinity School.
♦ November, 2000, “Who’s in a Name,” University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
♦ January, 2001, Eckstein Scholar in Residence, Arizona State University.
♦ March, 2001, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Alberta.
♦ April, 2001: “Sacred Polyphonia and Holy Homophonia: The Text-ures of Rabbinic Judaism and Orthodox Christianity in Late Antiquity,” The Aaron Roland Lecture in Jewish Studies, Stanford University.
♦ October, 2001: The Gates Lectures in Modern Religious Thought, Grinnell College.
♦ October, 2001: The William E. Du Bois Lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin.
♦ November, 2001: Berlin Prize Lecture, American Academy in Berlin.
♦ February-March, 2002: Richard and Susan Master Invited Professor, Centro di Studi Giudaici Cardinal Bea, Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Rome (series of lectures).
♦ June, 2002: Two day seminar on my work at Tel Aviv University, invited by the Junior Women’s Forum.
♦ July, 2002: One day seminar on my new work on Christianity and Judaism, University of Basel.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

♦ Sephardi Speculation: A Study in Methods of Talmudic Interpretation (Hebrew), Machon Ben Zwi: Jerusalem, 1989.
♦ Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash, Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1990. (Finalist for National Jewish Book Award)
♦ Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, vol. 25 of The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, series ed. Stephen Greenblatt, University of California Press: Berkeley, 1993.
♦ Israel Carnal: lendo o sexo na cultural talmúdica, [Portuguese translation of above], trans. André Cardoso, Imago Editora: Rio de Janeiro, 1994.
♦ A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity, vol. 1 of Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, series ed. Chana Kronfeld and Daniel Boyarin, University of California Press: Berkeley, 1994.
♦ Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies, co-edited with Jonathan Boyarin (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
♦ Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997).
♦ Editor of special issue of American Imago: Lacan's Christian Science (Volume 54, Number 2, Summer 1997).
♦ Habbassar Shebaruah: Siah Hamminiut Bassifrut Hattalmudit (The Flesh in the Spirit: The Discourse of Sexuality in the Talmudic Literature) [Hebrew translation of Carnal Israel], trans. Adi Ophir, Am Oved: Tel Aviv: 1999.
♦ Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism, Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture, Stanford University Press, 1999.
♦ Co-edited Volume: Studies in Rabbinic Literature Presented to H. Z. Dimitrovsky, Judah Magnes Press (Jerusalem) (in Hebrew), 2000.
♦ Den Logos zersplitten: Zur Genealogie der Nichtbestimmbarkeit des Textsinns im Midrasch, Schriftenreihe Ha’Atelier Collegium Berlin, Philo Verlag, Berlin, 2002 (fifty pages).
♦ Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture [with Jonathan Boyarin], University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
♦ Co-editor special issue of Journal of the History of Sexuality and author of introduction: “Foucault's History of Sexuality—The Fourth Volume, or, A Field left Fallow for Others to Till.”
♦ Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 2003.
♦ Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

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Hebrew Articles

1. Review: Targum Neofyti, ed. A. Diez-Macho, Hadoar, 1972.
2. "Reversals of Substantive and Attribute," Leshonenu, 1973, pp. 113-117.
3. "Studies in Babylonian Aramaic," Leshonenu, 1976, pp. 172-177.
4. "The Commentary of R. Yitzhaq Aboab to Chapter Hazzahav," Analectica
     Judaica, 1978, pp. 445-511.
5. "The Method of Study of the Spanish Exiles," Peamim 3, 1979, pp. 72-82.
6. "A Corrected Reading of the New `History of Jesus' Fragment," Tarbiz, 1978, pp. 249-252.
7. "Towards the Talmudic Lexicon," Tarbiz Jubilee Volume (invited), 1981, pp. 164-191.
8. "In the Wake of Lasset Welattet," Leshonenu, 1981, pp. 79-80.
9. "Change in Terminology as a Cause of Difficulty in the Talmudic Pericope," Prof. Saul
      Lieberman Jubilee Volume (invited), Israel Academy of Sciences, 1982, pp. 200-213.
10. "Studies in the Talmudic Commentary of the Spanish Exiles, I; The Method of Diaresis,"
       Sefunot, New Series, Vol. 2, pp. 165-184.
11. "Towards the Talmudic Lexicon 2," Teuda 3, 1984, pp. 113-119.
12. "Towards the Original Text of the Mekilta," Sidra 2, 1986, pp. 5-13.
13. "Hashir weHashevach," Eshel Beersheba 3, (Allony Memorial Volume), 1986, pp. 91-99.
14. "Towards the Talmudic Lexicon 3," Teuda 4, 1986, pp. 116-127.
15. "Towards the Talmudic Lexicon 4," Teuda 5 (Dov Iron Memorial Volume), 1987, pp. .
16. "Two Introductions to the Midrash on Song of Songs," Tarbiz 56 (1987), pp. 479-501.
17. "`Dorshe Reshumot Have Said'," Beersheva 3 (Moshe Held Memorial Volume), 1988,
     pp. 23-37.
18. "Studies in the Talmudic Commentary of the Spanish Exiles, II," Sefunot, New Series,
      Vol. 4 (1989), pp 11-23.
19. "Towards the Talmudic Lexicon 5," Menahem Moreshet Memorial Volume (Ramat Gan,
      1990), pp. 35-43.
20. "The Form of the Content: Myth and Aggada in Tannaitic Midrash," Proceedings of
      Conference on Rabbinic Thought (Haifa, 1989), pp. 37-43.
21. "Diachrony vs. Synchrony: The Legend of Beruria," Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore
      (1990), pp. 7-17.
22. "Midrash and Practice," Saul Lieberman Memorial Volume, ed. Shamma Friedman (New
     York: 1993), pp. 105-119.
23. "Thoughts on Rabbinic Hermeneutics," Moshe Goshen-Gottstein Jubilee Volume (Ramat Gan,
      1993), pp. 41-52.
24. "Paul and the Genealogy of Gender," Women's Time (Special Issue of Zemanim: A Historical
     Quarterly) 12 (1993), pp. 46-65.
25. "Husbands, Wives, and Sexual Discourse: The Talmud Reads Foucault," Theory and Criticism:
      An Israeli Forum 4 (1993), pp. 161-178
26. "Towards the Talmudic Lexicon 6," Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal Memorial Volume (Jerusalem,
     1993), pp. 13-24.
27. "Israel has no Motherland" (with Jonathan Boyarin), Theory and Criticism: An Israeli Forum 5
      (1994), pp. 79-104.
28. "Rabbis and their Pals; or, Are there any Jews in `The History of Sexuality'?," Zemanim: A
      Historical Quarterly 52 [Hebrew] (1995), 50-66.
29. "The Married Monk: Babylonian Aggada as Evidence for Change in Babylonian Halacha, A
      View into the Lives of Women in Jewish Societies: Collected Essays, ed. Yael Atzmon (Jerusalem:
      Zalman Shazar Center for Historical Research, 1995), pp. 77-94.
30. "Tricksters, Martyrs, and Appeasers: `Hidden Transcripts' and the Diaspora Arts of Resistance,"
      Theory and Criticism: an Israeli Forum, 10 (Summer, 1997), pp. 145-162.
31. "The Colonial Masqued Ball," Theory and Criticism: an Israeli Forum, 11 (Winter, 1997),
      pp. 123-144.
32. “Thinking With Virgins: Engendering Judaeo-Christian Difference,” Historia 3, February,
      1999, pp. 5-31.
33. “A Contribution to the History of Martyrology in Judaism,” in H.Z.Dimitrovsky Festschrift,
      Magnes Press (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2000), 3-27.
34. "A Tale of Two Synods: Nicaea, avneh, and Rabbinic Ecclesiology," in Continuity and Renewal:
      Jews and Judaism in Byzantine-Christian Palestine (Jerusalem: Dinur Center for the Study of Jewish
      History, 2004), 3001-332.

English Articles

1. "Penitential Liturgy in 4 Ezra," Journal for the Study of Judaism, 1972, pp. 30-34.
2. Review of Studies of the Aramaic Papyri, by Yohanan Muffs, Journal of the Ancient Near East
   Society, 1972, pp. 25-30.
3. "Column 36 of the Qumran Job Targum," Journal of the Ancient Near East Society, 1974, pp. 29-33.
4. "The Loss of Final Root Consonants in Babylonian Aramaic," Afroasiatic Linguistics, 1976,
    pp. 103-107.
5. Targum Onkelos to the Pentateuch, A Collection of Fragments in the Jewish Theological Seminary
    of America (New York: 1976), ed. and Introduction by Daniel Boyarin, 4 Vols.
6. "On the History of the Babylonian Aramaic Reading Traditions," Journal of Near Eastern Studies,
    1978, pp. 141-160.
7. "The Low Vowel System of Gaonic Aramaic," Israel Oriental Studies, 1979, pp. 129-141.
8. Review, J. Sabar, Peshat Wayhi Beshallach, Maarav, 1982, pp. 99-114.
9. "On the Emergence of the Aramaic Dialects," Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of
   J. Alexander Kerns ed. Yoël Arbeitman (Amsterdam: 1982), pp. 613-649.
10. "Rhetoric and Interpretation: The Case of the Nimshal," Prooftexts, 1985, pp. 269-276.
11. "Voices in the Text," Revue biblique, October, 1986, pp. 581-598.
12. "Pilpul, The Logic of Commentary," Dor le Dor, 1986, pp. 82-106.
13. "Analogy vs. Anomaly in Midrashic Hermeneutic," Journal of the American Oriental Society,
      106.4 (1986), pp. 659-667.
14. "Old Wine in New Bottles: Intertextuality and Midrash," Poetics Today, 8:4 (1987),
   pp. 539-557.
15. "Bilingualism and Meaning in Rabbinic Literature," Fucus: A Semitic/Afrasian
      Gathering in Remembrance of Alfred Ehrman, (=Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 58)
      ed. Yoël Arbeitman (Amsterdam, 1988), pp. 141-152.
16. "Language Inscribed by History on the Bodies of Living Beings: Midrash and Martyrdom,"
      Representations, 25 (Winter, 1989), pp. 139-151.
17. "Towards a Dialogue with Edward Said" (with Jonathan Boyarin), Critical Inquiry 15 (1989),
      pp. 626-633.
18. "The Sea Resists: Midrash and the (Psycho)dynamics of Intertexuality," Poetics Today
      10:4 (1989), pp. 661-677.
19. "Inner Biblical Ambiguity, Intertextuality and the Dialectic of Midrash: The Waters of Marah,"
      Prooftexts 10:1 (1990), pp. 29-49.
20. "The Song of Songs:Lock or Key?," in The Book and the Text: Bible and Literary Theory,
      ed. Regina Schwartz (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), pp. 214-231.
21. "The Eye in the Torah: Ocular Desire in Midrashic Hermeneutic," Critical Inquiry (Spring, 1990),
      pp. 532-550.
22. "The Politics of Biblical Narratology: Reading the Bible Like\as a Woman," diacritics 20:2
      (Winter, 1990), 31-42.
23. "History Becomes Parable: a Reading of the Midrashic Mashal," Mappings of the Biblical Terrain:
      The Bible as Text (=Bucknell Review (1990), ed. Vincent L. Tollers and John Maier (Lewisburg,
      PA: Bucknell University Press), pp. 54-72.
24. "Literary Fat Rabbis: On the Historical Origin of the Grotesque Body," The Journal of the History
      of Sexuality 1:4 (Spring, 1991), pp. 551-584.
25. "Reading Androcentrism Against the Grain: Women, Sex and Torah-Study," Poetics Today
      12:2 (Spring, 1991), pp. 29-53.
26. "Internal Opposition in Talmudic Literature: The Case of the Married Monk," Representations (36,
      Fall, 1991), pp. 87-113.
27. "Behold Israel According to the Flesh": On Anthropology and Sexuality in Late Antique Judaisms,"
      Yale Journal of Criticism. (5:2, Spring, 1992), 25-55.
28. "`This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel': Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel,"
      Critical Inquiry. (Spring, 1992), 474-506.
29. "The Great Fat Massacre: Sex, Death and the Grotesque Body in the Talmud," in People of the Body,
      ed. Howard Eilberg-Schwartz (Suny Press, 1992), 69-102.
30. "On the Status of the Tannaitic Midrashim," Journal of the American Oriental Society. (1993), 455-465.
31. "Paul and the Genealogy of Gender," Representations 41 (Winter, 1993): 1-33.
32. "Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe," in The Ethnography of Reading, ed. Jonathan
      Boyarin (University of California Press, 1993): 10-37.
33. "Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity," (with Jonathan Boyarin) Critical Inquiry
      19:4 (Summer, 1993): 693-725.
34. "The Subversion of the Jews: Moses's Veil and The Hermeneutics of Supersession," diacritics, 23:2
      (Summer, 1993): 16-35.
35. "Was Paul an `Anti-Semite?': A Reading of Galatians 3-4," Union Seminary Quarterly Review 47:1-2
      (1993): 47-80.
36. "Épater l'embourgeoisement: Freud, Gender, and the (De)Colonized Psyche," diacritics, 24:1 (Spring,
      1994): 17-42.
37. "Jewish Masochism: Couvade, Castration, and Rabbis in Pain," American Imago 51:1 (Spring, 1994):
      3-36.
38. "Are there any Jews in `The History of Sexuality'?," Journal of the History of Sexuality, 5:3 (January,
      1995): 333-355.
39. "Self-exposure as Theory: The Double Mark of the Male Jew" (with Jonathan Boyarin), Rhetorics of
      Self-Making, ed. Debbora Battaglia (University of California Press, 1995): 16-42.
40. "Freud's Baby, Fliess's Maybe: Homophobia, Antisemitism, and the Invention of Oedipus," GLQ 2:1
      (1995), special issue, Pink Freud, ed. Diana Fuss: 1-33. [winner Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in
      gay and lesbian studies by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the MLA]: 115-147.
41. "Take the Bible for Example: Midrash as Theory," Unruly Examples: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in
      Literature and Philosophy, ed. Alexander Gelley (Stanford University Press, 1995): 27-47 and 330-336.
42. "Rabbinic Resistance to Male Domination: A Case Study in Talmudic Cultural Poetics," Interpreting
      Judaism in a Postmodern Age, ed. Steven Kepnes (New York: New York University Press, 1995), 118-141.
43. "Dialectics of Desire: `The Evil Instinct is Very Good'," Jewish Explorations of Sexuality, ed. Jonathan
      Magonet (London: Berghahn Books, 1995), 27-40.
44. "Homotopia: The Feminized Jewish Man and the Lives of Women in Late Antiquity," differences, 7:2
      (Summer, 1995): 41-81.
45. "Body Politics among the Brides of Christ: Paul and the Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation,"
      in Asceticism, eds. Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis (New York: Oxford University Press,
      1995): 459-478.
46. "`An Imaginary and Desirable Converse': Moses and Monotheism as Family Romance," in Reading
      Bibles, Writing Bodies: Identity and the Book, eds. Timothy K. Beal and David M. Gunn (London:
      Routledge, 1996): 184-204.
47. "Justify My Love," in Judaism Since Gender, eds. Laura Levitt and Miriam Peskowitz (New York:
      Routledge, 1996): 131-137.
48. "What Does a Jew Want?; or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus," Discourse, 19:2, special issue
      on the Psychoanalysis of Race, ed. Christopher Lane, Winter 1997: 21-52.
49. Idem, in The Pschoanalysis of Race, ed. Christopher Lane (New York: Columbia University Press,
      1998): 211-240.
50. "Massada or Yavneh?, Gender and the Arts of Jewish Resistance," in Jews and Other Differences:
      the New Jewish Cultural Studies, ed. Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin (Minneapolis: University
      of Minnesota Press, 1997): 306-329.
51. "Torah-Study and the Making of Jewish Gender," in, The Feminist Companion to Biblical
      Approaches and Methodologies, ed. Athalya Brenner and Carole Fontaine, JSOT Beihefte.
      (Sheffield: JSOT, 1997): 585-621.
52. "Des Eve multiples: Origines mythiques de la femme et discourse du sexe conjugal," in,
      Transmission et passages en monde juif, ed. Esther Benbassa (Paris: Publisud, 1997): 33-63.
53. "Y-a-til des Juifs dans "l'histoire de la sexualitè?", Le corps du texte: Pour un anthropologie
      des textes de la tradition juive, ed. Florence Heymann et Danielle Storper Perez (Paris: CNRS
      Editions, 1997): 145-172.
54. "Jewish Cricket," PMLA, 113:1 (January, 1998): 40-45.
55. "Readings in the Leem Mishneh," Studies in a Rabbinic Family: the de Botons, ed. Menahem
      Ben-Sasson et al (Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, 1998): 19-98.
56. "Goyim Naches; or, Modernity and the Manliness of the Mentsh," in Modernity, Culture and
      "the Jew," ed. Bryan Cheyette and Laura Marcus (Stanford: Stanford University Press,
      1998): 63-87.
57. “Gender,” in Critical Terms for Religious Studies, ed. Mark C. Taylor (Chicago: Chicago
      University Press, 1998): 117-135.
58. "The Talmud Meets Church History," diacritics, 28:2 (Summer, 1998): 52-80.
59. "Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism," Journal of Early Christian Studies, 6:4
      (December, 1998): 577-627.
60. “Anna O(rthodox): Bertha Pappenheim and the Making of Jewish Feminism,” Bulletin of the John
      Rylands Library, special issue on Experience, Representation, and Gender, ed. Grace M. Jantzen
      80:3 (Autumn, 1998): 65-87.
61. “Virgins in Brothels: Gender and Religious Ecotypification,” Estudos de Literatura Oral, 5 (1999),
      Universidade do Algarve, Portugal: 195-217.
62. “A Tale of Two Synods: Nicaea, Yavneh, and the Early History of Orthodox Judaism,” Exemplaria,
      12.1 (Spring, 2000): 21-62 .
63. "The Bartered Word: Midrash and Symbolic Economy," Aporemata: Kritische Studien zur
      Philologiegeschichte, Vol. 4 (2000), ed. Glenn W. Most: 19-65.
64. "Outing Freud's Zionism; or, The Diaspora Politics of a Bitextual Jew," in Queer Diasporas,
      ed. Cindy Patton and Benigno Sánchez-Eppler, Duke University Press (2000), pp. 71-104.
65. “The Close Call; or, Could a Pharisee be a Christian,” in Mapping Jewish Identities (ed. Lawrence
   Silverstein), New York University Press, 2000, pp. 266-298.
66. “Talmudic texts and Jewish social life,” in Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, ed. Richard Valantasis,
      Princeton University Press.
67. “The Colonial Drag: Zionism, Gender, and Mimicry,” in The Pre-Occupation of Post-Colonial Studies,
   ed. Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Duke University Press, 2000, pp. 234-265.
68.“Women's Bodies and the Rise of the Rabbis: The Case of Sotah,” in Jews and Gender: The Challenge to
      Hierarchy=Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. XVI, 2001, pp. 88-100.
69. “On Stoves, Sex, and Slave-girls: Rabbinic Orthodoxy and the Definition of Jewish Identity,” Hebrew
      Studies 41, 2000, 169-188.
70. “`After the Sabbath, at the moment when the first day was about to shine,’: (Matt. 28:1)-Once More
      Into the Crux,” Journal of Theological Studies, NS 52:, Oct. 2001, 678-688.
71. “Justin Martyr Invents Judaism,” Church History 70: 3 (September 2001), 427-461.
72. “The Gospel of the Memra: Jewish Binitarianism and the Prologue to John,” Harvard Theological
      Review 94:3 (July, 2001), 243-284.72.
73. “One Church; One Voice: the Drive Towards Homonoia in Orthodoxy,” Religion and Literature
      33:2 (Summer 2001), 1-22.
74. “Moslem, Christian, and Jewish Cultural Interaction in Sefardic Talmudic Interpretation,” Journal of
      Rabbinic Judaism, 5:1.
75. “The Ioudaioi in John and the Prehistory of ‘Judaism’,” in Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays
      in Honour of Calvin J. Roetzel (Sheffield: 2002), pp. 224-250.
76. "The Diadoche of the Rabbis; or, Rabbi Judah at Yavneh," in Jewish Culture and Society Under the
      Christian Roman Empire, eds. Richard Kalmin and Seth Schwartz (Peeters: Louvain), 2003, 285-318.
77. "Shattering the Logos: Hermeneutics Between a Hammer and a Hard Place," in The Blackwell
      Companion to Postmodern Theology (Oxford: 2001 [2003]), pp. 311-323.
78. "On the history of the early Phallus," Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, ed. Sharon Farmer
      and Carol Pasternack (Minneapolis: 2003):3-44.
79. "The Genealogy of Indeterminacy," The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture III, ed. Peter
      Schäfer (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck), 2003, 273-299.
80. "Semantic Differences; or, 'Judaism'/'Christianity'," The Ways that Never Parted, edited by Peter Schäfer
      and Annette Yoshiko Reed (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2003), 65-86.
81. "Two Powers in Heaven; or, The Making of a Heresy," The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in
   Honor of James L. Kugel (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 331-370.
82. "The Christian Invention of Judaism: TheTheodosian Empire and the Rabbinic Refusal of Religion,"
      Representations 85 (Spring, 2004), 21-57.

Accepted for Publication

83. “Why is Rabbi Yohanan a Woman?: 'Platonic Love' in the Talmud," to appear in volume edited by Mark
Jordan at Princeton University Press.
84. "By Way of Apology: Dawson, Edwards, Origen," to appear in Studia Philonica Annual.
85. "The Yavneh-Cycle of the Stammaim and the Invention of the Rabbis," in Creation and Composition:
The Contribtuion of the Bavli Redactors to the Aggadah, ed. J. L. Rubenstein (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2005).

Current Research

Two books on aspects of rabbinic culture and discourse as belonging to a Hellenistic rhetorical or sophistical
counter-tradition to philosophy, one under contract to Fordham University Press and one to the University of
Chicago Press.

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SUPERVISION OF DISSERTATIONS AND THESES

Dalia Hoshen -- The Fire-Symbol in the Literature of the Sages (PhD., Bar-Ilan University, 1990).

Christine Hayes -- Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds: Accounting for Halakhic Difference in Selected Sugyot from Tractate Avodah Zarah (PhD., Near-Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, 1993).

Rachel Arava -- "Precious Shall be Your Blood": Women's Perception and Experience of Menstruation in Traditional Judaism (Master's Thesis [Master's of Science, Health and Medical Sciences, UC Berkeley, 1993]).

Charlotte Fonrobert -- Women's Bodies, Women's Blood: Politics of Gender in Rabbinic Literature (PhD., Center for Jewish Studies, GTU, 1995).

Shlomo Fischer -- The "Give and Take" of the Babylonian Talmud: Discourse and the Spirit of Carnival (Master's, Touro College, Jerusalem, 1996).

Jonathan Lee Seidel -- Studies in Ancient Jewish Magic (PhD., Near-Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, 1997).

Willis Johnson -- Between Christians and Jews: The Formation of Anti-Jewish Stereotypes in Medieval England (PhD., Near-Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, 1997).

Gil Anidjar -- At Our Place in Al-Andalus: Declinations of Place in Jewish Letters (PhD., Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, 1997)--codirected with Judith Butler.

Nina Caputo “And God Rested on the Seventh Day...”: Time, History and Creation in Medieval Jewish Culture-- (PhD. Department of History, UC Berkeley, 1999)--co-directed with Geoffrey Koziol.

Azzan Yadin (Meir-Levy) -- Imitatio Scripturae: Torah and Hermeneutics in the Rabbi Ishmael Midrashim (PhD. Joint Program in Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley, 1999).

Ruti Kadish-- “Mothers and Soldiers: Israeli Lesbian and Gay Negotiations of Jewish, National, and Sexual Identity (Ph D, Near-Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, 2001).

Natan Margalit-- “Life Containing Texts: The Mishna’s Discourse of Gender, A Literary/Anthropological Analysis (Ph D, Near-Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, 2001).

Robert Daum -- Describing Yavneh: The Foundational Traditions of Rabbinic Judaism (Ph D, Near-Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, 2001).

Avi Warshavsky -- On Talmudic Inferences, Reflective Sugiyot and Philosophy of Language (Masters Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, 2001).

Ronald Kenneth Reissberg -- A Tale of Two Cities: From Caesarea to Nisibis, The Christian Impact on Jewish Theology (PhD, department of History, UC Davis, 2003), codirected with David Biale.

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OTHER ACTIVITIES

Graduate, Workshop Institute for Living-Learning, N.Y., N.Y., July, 1985.
Graduate WILL International, 1988.
Leader of WILL Seminars in London, Israel and United States.
Papers on group work published in WILL professional journal, TZI (Mathias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz).
1991-1997 Chair, International Board of Governors, Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem.
Publisher, From the Other Side, Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem.

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