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A 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 seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicit... Read More about The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto

A provocative manifesto arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what "the Jews" are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or ... Read More about The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto

In July 2008 a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Commenting on this startling discovery at the time, noted Talmud scholar Daniel... Read More about The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ

Not 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 world of the first century, many sects competed for the name of the true Israel and the true interp... Read More about Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)

In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female ... Read More about Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society #8)

The 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 religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even befo... Read More about Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)