Daniel Boyarin, Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California at Berkeley lecture entitled "A Tale of Two Synods: How Christianity and Judaism Converged on the Eve of the Middle Ages".
Christianity and Judaism were one religio-cultural system through late antiquity, exhibiting many mutual influences and practices. Daniel Boyarin reflects on this relationship and, in the process, explores attitudes toward a number of issues central to our own intellectual and social life. Boyarin has written widely on major Jewish texts from all periods of the Bible to the modern period, addressing such topics as the formation of Jewish identity, connections between Jewish experience and sexual or gender identity, and the concept of diaspora. He is the author of Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, lntertextuality and the Reading of Midrash, and A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity.
Location: Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
Date: March 23, 1999, 8:00 pm
This lecture is made possible by the generous Krouse Family Visiting Scholars Fund in Judaism and Western Culture and MillerComm.