Border Lines by Daniel Boyarin
"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism... In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."-Jack Miles, Commonweal
"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism. . . In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece." * Jack Miles, Commonweal *
"Boyarin's book challenges the ordinary usage of the terms 'Judaism' and 'Christianity' and juxtaposes the formation of orthodoxy as it is formulated within rabbinic tradition and among Christians of the patristic period. His bold thesis will no doubt prove controversial and important." * Elaine Pagels, author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas *
"Boyarin proposes that by constructing the categories of religious orthodoxy and heresy, second-century Gentile Christians created the concept of religion which pervades the Western world to this day. The work is intensely provocative and innovative and is destined to take its proper place as a modern classic among Boyarin's previous works." * Shofar *
"Boyarin's book challenges the ordinary usage of the terms 'Judaism' and 'Christianity' and juxtaposes the formation of orthodoxy as it is formulated within rabbinic tradition and among Christians of the patristic period. His bold thesis will no doubt prove controversial and important." * Elaine Pagels, author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas *
"Boyarin proposes that by constructing the categories of religious orthodoxy and heresy, second-century Gentile Christians created the concept of religion which pervades the Western world to this day. The work is intensely provocative and innovative and is destined to take its proper place as a modern classic among Boyarin's previous works." * Shofar *
Daniel Boyarin is the Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity, Judaism and A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity, and other books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812219869 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812219864 |
| Title | Border Lines |
| Author | Daniel Boyarin |
| Series | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2006-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 2006 Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion 2021 |
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