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List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Wrestling with Paul
I. Circumcision, Allegory, and Universal "Man"
2. What Was Wrong with Judaism? The Cultural Politics of Pauline Scholarship
3· The Spirit and the Flesh: Paul's Political Anthropology
4· Moses' Veil; or, The Jewish Letter, the Christian Spirit
5· Circumcision and Revelation; or, The Politics of the Spirit
6. Was Paul an "Anti-Semite"?
7· Brides of Christ: Jewishness and the Pauline Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation
8. "There Is No Male and Female": Galatians and Gender Trouble
9· Paul, the "jewish Problem," and the "Woman Question"
10. Answering the Mail: Toward a Radical Jewishness
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Daniel Boyarin is Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (California, 1993).
Summary
Jewishness disrupts categories of identity because it is not genealogical, or even religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension with one another. An exploration of these tensions in the Pauline corpus, argues the author lead us to an appreciation of our own cultural quandaries as male and female, gay and straight, Jew and Palestinian.
