The Talmud Unmasked - The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians
by I B Pranaitis
A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part 2 (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity)
A Traveling Homeland (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
by Daniel Boyarin
A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of peoples, or the conditions of alienation abroad and yearning for an ancestral home. But as Daniel Boyarin writes, diaspora may be more constructively construed as a form of cultural hybridity or a mode of analysis. In A Traveling Homeland, he makes the case that a shared homeland or past and traumatic dis...
Carnal Israel (New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, #25)
by Contributor Daniel Boyarin
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their discussions constitute the bulk of what we know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult, having accumulated numerous commentaries over the centuries since it first appeared. Recent translatio...
Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Rabbinic Hermeneutics. the Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume 11
by Contributor Daniel Boyarin