Talmudic transgressions : : engaging the work of Daniel Boyarin / / edited by Charlotte E. Fonrobert [and four others].

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume 181
• TeilnehmendeR: Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; Volume 181.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 pages).
• Notes: Includes indexes.; "Originated in a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in April 2014"--From the editors.

Talmudic Transgressions is a collection of essays on rabbinic literature and related fields in response to the boundary-pushing scholarship of Daniel Boyarin. This work is an attempt to transgress boundaries in various ways, since boundaries differentiate social identities, literary genres, legal practices, or diasporas and homelands. These essays locate the transgressive not outside the classical traditions but in these traditions themselves, having learned from Boyarin that it is often within the tradition and in its terms that we can find challenges to accepted notions of knowledge, text, and ethnic or gender identity. The sections of this volume attempt to mirror this diverse set of topics. Contributors include Julia Watts Belser, Jonathan Boyarin, Shamma Boyarin, Virginia Burrus, Sergey Dolgopolski, Charlotte E. Fonrobert, Simon Goldhill, Erich S. Gruen, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Christine Hayes, Adi Ophir, James Redfield, Elchanan Reiner, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Lena Salaymeh, Zvi Septimus, Aharon Shemesh, Dina Stein, Eliyahu Stern, Moulie Vidas, Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Elliot R. Wolfson, Azzan Yadin-Israel, Israel Yuval, and Froma Zeitlin.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Authorial Intent: Human and Divine / Azzan Yadin-Israel -- A Place of Torah / Moulie Vidas -- Tosafot Gornish Post-Kant: The Talmud as Political Thought / Sergey Dolgopolski -- Did the Rabbis Consider Nazirhood an Ascetic Practice? / Aharon Shemesh -- “The Torah was not Given to Ministering Angels”: Rabbinic Aspirationalism / Christine Hayes -- Footnotes to Carnal Israel: Infertility and the Legal Subject / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer -- Temporalities of Marriage: Jewish and Islamic Legal Debates / Lena Salaymeh and Zvi Septimus -- Myth, History and Eschatology in a Rabbinic Treatise on Birth / Galit Hasan-Rokem and Israel Jacob Yuval -- Rabbinic Trickster Tales: The Sex and Gender Politics of the Bavli’s Sinful Sages / Julia Watts Belser -- Phallic Jewissance and the Pleasure of No Pleasure / Elliot R. Wolfson -- “Changing the Order of Creation”: The Toldot Ben Sira Disrupts the Medieval Hebrew Canon / Shamma Boyarin -- Paul and Jewish Ethnicity / Erich S. Gruen -- Paul and the Universal Goyim: “A Radical Jew” Revisited / Ishay Rosen-Zvi and Adi Ophir -- Kinship and Qiddushin: Genealogy and Geography in born Qiddushin iv / Jonathan Boyarin -- Paul in the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Samuel Joseph Fuenn’s Paths of God / Eliyahu Stern -- Revisiting the Fat Rabbis / Zvi Septimus -- Socrates, the Rabbis and the Virgin: The Dialogic Imagination in Late Antiquity / Virginia Burrus -- What Would Martin Luther Say to Daniel Boyarin? / Simon Goldhill -- The Battle of Qedesh on the Plain of Ḥatsor: On the Hasmonean Roots of the Galilean Foundational Myth / Elchanan Reiner -- As the Gates of Jerusalem, so the Gates of Maḥuza: Defining Place in Diaspora / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- Following Goats: Text, Place and Diaspora(s) / Dina Stein -- Crossing Border Lines: Daniel Boyarin’s Life/Work / James Adam Redfield -- List of Publications -- Index of Talmudic Sources -- Index of Subjects.