Table of Contents

Epistemological canyons : the anomic academy
The ancient model : hard moderns versus idiosyncratic ancient
The revised ancient model : the heretic's cocktail
The Aryan models
Atmospheric determinism
The antinomies of Martin Bernal
A "total contestation" of the research university : "beware the nonspecialist"
The academic Elvis
Reconfiguring the ancient Egyptians : Bernal's strategic reading
Contentious communities : "blacks and Jews" and Black Athena
We scholars : heresy in the university/Intellectual responsibility/passionate ambivalence

About the Author

Jacques Berlinerblau is an assistant professor and director of Judaic studies at Hofstra University. 

Reviews

Heresy in the University is an exemplary act of adjudication-genuinely clarifying about matters that have so often, most often been obscured by angry polemic, genuinely judicious in a way that only a very capacious, open-minded and broad-ranging mind could manage, charmingly self-conscious about its own limits and yet quite passionate about its loyalties...an exemplary book.
*coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation and author of Feeling Global: Inte*

Berlinerblau's ability to integrate far-reaching serious scholarly and ethical issues within the substantive content of the Black Athena debate is impressive.
*Howard University, coeditor of The Challenge of Black Athena*