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Socrates and the Fat Rabbis by Daniel Boyarin 9780226069173
Booksplease Price: €33.97What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their... -
Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.80Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of 'Judaism' is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin,... -
Socrates and the Fat Rabbis Daniel Boyarin 9780226069166
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €92.34What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their unique... -
Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash by Daniel Boyarin 9780253209092
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14Proceeding by means of intensive readings of passages from the early midrash on Exodus The Mekilta, Boyarin proposes a new theory of midrash that rests in part on an understanding of the... -
The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.14A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two... -
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.75The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of... -
Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion by Daniel Boyarin 9780813571621
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €114.42Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of 'Judaism' is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin,... -
Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one... -
A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €27.45Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical... -
A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.86A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of... -
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin 9780231113748
RRP: €159.46Booksplease Price: €127.02The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of... -
The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ Daniel Boyarin 9781595588784
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40In 2008, The New York Times reported on the discovery of a Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Christ, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Famed... -
Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish... -
Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.29Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic... -
Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity by Daniel Boyarin 9780812237641
Booksplease Price: €101.67The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one... -
Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €29.27In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euro-American warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the... -
Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism by Daniel Boyarin 9780804736176
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €92.09Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish... -
Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity by David Dawson 9780520226302
Booksplease Price: €72.63This book makes an illuminating contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture, and more specifically, the relationship between the Old... -
Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments Yvonne Sherwood 9780415968898
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €50.10Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to explore, adapt, and test Derrida's contributions and influence on the study of theology, biblical studies,... -
Jews Against Themselves Edward Alexander 9781412856829
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30This volume features powerful essays by Edward Alexander on the phenomenon of anti-Zionism on the part of the Jewish intelligentsia. It also analyzes the explosive growth of traditional... -
Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion by William E. Arnal
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.09Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion presents a provocative critique of the unwillingness of modern scholars to publically distinguish research into comparative religion from... -
Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion by William E. Arnal 9781845538989
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €98.82Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion presents a provocative critique of the unwillingness of modern scholars to publically distinguish research into comparative religion from... -
The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders Paul Bogdanor 9781412808040
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29Before 1967, Israel had the overwhelming support of world opinion. So long as Israel's existence was in harmony with politically correct assumptions, it was supported, or at least accepted, by the... -
The Talmud: A Biography by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer 9780691161846
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.85The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a... -
Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity by Peter Schafer
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.25A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and... -
The Talmud: A Biography by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.49The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a... -
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud by Moulie Vidas 9780691154862
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €49.86Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud... -
Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud by Moulie Vidas 9780691170862
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.29Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud offers a new perspective on perhaps the most important religious text of the Jewish tradition. It is widely recognized that the creators of the Talmud... -
Authorizing Marriage?: Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions by Mark D. Jordan 9780691123462
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €58.96The opponents of legal recognition for same-sex marriage frequently appeal to a "Judeo-Christian" tradition. But does it make any sense to speak of that tradition as a single teaching on marriage?... -
Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture by Menachem Fisch 9780253333162
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32" . . . a fascinating and thought-provoking book . . . " -The Jewish Quarterly"The best introduction to the talmudic literature that is available. . . . An extraordinarily important book, brilliant,... -
The World of Early Egyptian Christianity: Language, Literature, and Social Context by James E. Goehring 9780813215792
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78With increasing interest in early Egyptian (Coptic) Christianity, this volume offers an important collection of essays about Coptic language, literature, and social history by some of the finest... -
Powers Of Diaspora: Two Essays On The Relevance Of Jewish Culture by Jonathan Boyarin 9780816635979
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.11Reasserts the centrality of Jewish culture to contemporary discussions of diasporaDiaspora: the scattering of a people, often described as a condition of helplessness and a pathology to be overcome... -
Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire by Timothy Luckritz Marquis 9780300187144
Booksplease Price: €62.99In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical... -
Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities by Carlin A. Barton
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.26What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map... -
Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities by Carlin A. Barton 9780823271191
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €96.18What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map... -
Unveiling Eve: Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature by Tova Rosen 9780812237108
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €58.63Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and... -
Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age by Steven Kepnes 9780814746752
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism? The neat... -
Mapping Jewish Identities by Laurence J. Silberstein
Booksplease Price: €108.14Is Jewish identity flourishing or in decline? Community leaders and scholarly researchers continually seek to determine the attitudes, beliefs, and activities that best measure Jewish identity. At... -
Coming Out Jewish Jon Stratton 9780415222082
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €44.04Like many Jews of our generation, Jon Stratton grew up in a family more concerned about assimilation than about preserving Jewish tradition. While he could easily 'pass' among non-Jews, he found... -
Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age by Steven Kepnes 9780814746745
Booksplease Price: €108.14Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism? The neat...