About the Author

Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. His books include "A Radical Jew," "Border Lines," and "Socrates and the Fat Rabbis." He lives in Berkeley, California.

Reviews

"If Boyarin is right, the consequences go beyond making a few adjustments to our understanding of the past. As the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Miles writes in his foreword to "The Jewish Gospels, " Jews and Christians will have to radically rethink their identities and relationship to each other."
--"Moment"
"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 . . . intensely provocative and innovative."
--"Shofar"
"A brilliant and momentous book."
--Karen L. King, Harvard Divinity School
"Raises profound questions . . . this provocative book will change the way we think of the Gospels in their Jewish context."
--John J. Collins, Yale Divinity School
"It's certainly noteworthy when one of the world's leading Jewish scholars publishes a book about Jesus . . . extremely stimulating."
--Daniel C. Peterson, "The Deseret News"
"[A] fascinating recasting of the story of Jesus."
--Elliot Wolfson, New York University


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 . . . intensely provocative and innovative.
--"Shofar"