Daniel Boyarin

Daniel Boyarin (Hebrew: דניאל בויארין; born 1946) 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. 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".

Daniel Boyarin
Born (1946-12-06) December 6, 1946
Academic background
Alma materGoddard College, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Columbia University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Notable studentsChristine Hayes, Charlotte Fonrobert, Azzan Yadin
Websitenes.berkeley.edu/Web_Boyarin/BoyarinHomePage.html
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