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Daniel Boyarin

Contemporary Jewish-American academic · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1946 · age 79

Daniel Boyarin 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.

Daniel Boyarin is read about 52 times a day, in 9 languages.

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Awards

Berlin Prize2001
Guggenheim Fellowship1992

About this person

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".

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1946 · age 79