Author: Daniel Boyarin

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 ...

A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews peoplehood   A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyo...

A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, diaspora has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacemen...

What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancien...