Daniel Boyarin | |
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Born | Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S. | December 6, 1946
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Goddard College, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Columbia University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Notable students | Christine Hayes, Charlotte Fonrobert, Azzan Yadin |
Website | nes |
Daniel Boyarin (Hebrew: דניאל בויארין; born 1946) is an Israeli–American academic and historian of religion. Born in New Jersey, he holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship. He is the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to Chava Boyarin, a lecturer in Hebrew at UC Berkeley. They have two sons. His brother, Jonathan Boyarin, is also a scholar, and the two have written together. He has defined himself as a "diasporic rabbinic Jew".[1]