Albert
& Liese Eckstein Scholar in Residence - 2001
Daniel Boyarin,
Univeristy of California at Berkeley
Daniel Boyarin
is the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Department
of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley.
Among his most recent books are Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality
and the Invention of the Jewish Man (1997), Habbassar Shebaruah: Siah
Hamminiut Bassifrut Hattalmudit (The Flesh in the Spirit: The Discourse of Sexuality
in the Talmudic Literature) (1999), and Dying for God: Martyrdom and
the Making of Christianity and Judaism (1999).
Professor Boyarin presented a public lecture entitled “The Birth
of the Study House: A Talmudic Archaeology” on Thursday, January 2, 2001
5 at 7:30 in the evening at the Kerr Cultural Center.
Invitation PDF 
