Areas of Interest

Talmud, Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, Religion and systems of sex and gender, Rhetoric of interpretation, Politics of rhetoric/philosophy in antiquity, Designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality

Selected Publications

Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

Sparks of the Logos: Essays in Midrashic Hermeneutics, (Brill, 2003).

Unheroic Conduct:  The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (University of California Press, 1997).

Jews and Other Differences:  The New Jewish Cultural Studies, Jonathan Boyarin, co-editor (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

A Radical Jew:  Paul and the Politics of Identity, v. 1 of Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society (University of California Press, 1994).

Carnal Israel:  Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, v. 25 of The New Historicism:  Studies in Cultural Poetics (University of California Press, 1993).