Christianity and Judaism continued to be 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, Intertexuality and the Reading of Midrash, and A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity.

Hosted by:  Sheldon and Anita Drobny Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society, Ann and Paul Krouse Endowment

In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative Literature, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women?s Studies Program, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation, Psychological Services Center