LEADER 03496nam 22006252a 450 001 9910496145803321 005 20230828214752.0 010 $a0-585-13080-9 010 $a0-520-92036-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520920361 035 $a(CKB)110989862154060 035 $a(MH)004477932-1 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000232191 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12066793 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232191 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209765 035 $a(PQKB)10869832 035 $a(DE-B1597)648829 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520920361 035 $a(EXLCZ)99110989862154060 100 $a19930823d1994 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA radical Jew $ePaul and the politics of identity /$fDaniel Boyarin$b[electronic resource] 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 366 p. ) 225 0 $aContraversions A radical Jew 225 0$aContraversions ;$v1 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-21214-2 311 $a0-520-08592-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 339-357) and index. 330 $aDaniel 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 critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and female in Christ," demonstrates the genius of Christianity: its concern for all people. The genius of Judaism is its validation of genealogy and cultural, ethnic difference. But the evils of these two thought systems are the obverse of their geniuses: Christianity has threatened to coerce universality, while ethnic difference is one of the most troubled issues in modern history.Boyarin posits a "diaspora identity" as a way to negotiate the pitfalls inherent in either position. Jewishness disrupts categories of identity because it is not national, genealogical, or even religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension with one another. It is analogous with gender: gender identity makes us different in some ways but not in others.An exploration of these tensions in the Pauline corpus, argues Boyarin, will lead us to a richer appreciation of our own cultural quandaries as male and female, gay and straight, Jew and Palestinian-and as human beings. 606 $aJudaism (Christian theology)$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, approximately 30-600 606 $aJudaism (Christian theology)$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aChristianity$2HILCC 606 $aReligion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 615 0$aJudaism (Christian theology)$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aJudaism (Christian theology)$xHistory of doctrines 615 7$aChristianity 615 7$aReligion 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 676 $a227/.06 700 $aBoyarin$b Daniel$0281529 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496145803321 996 $aA radical Jew$92865064 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress