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A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Daniel Boyarin
A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora - Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Daniel Boyarin
In A Traveling Homeland, Daniel Boyarin makes the case that the Babylonian Talmud is a diasporist manifesto producing and defining the practices that constitute Jewish diasporic identity in the form of textual, interpretive communities built around talmudic study.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contributor Bio: Boyarin, Daniel Daniel Boyarin is Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture" (California, 1993) and "A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity" (California, 1994). Chapter 5 of "Unheroic Conduct", "Freud's Baby, Fliess's Maybe; Or, Male Hysteria, Homophobia, and the Invention of the Jewish Man," received the Crompton-Noll Award of the Modern Language Association Gay and Lesbian Caucus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 16, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9780812247244 |
Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 160 × 238 × 25 mm · 450 g |
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