The Brodie Center for Jewish and Israeli Law at Yale Law School is hosting Daniel Boyarin for a lecture titled "Halakha and Aggada: After 'Nomos and Narrative.'"
Daniel Boyarin received his doctorate in Talmud at the Jewish Theological School of America in 1975 and having studied Talmud under the greatest scholars of the twentieth century, Profs. Saul Liberman zal and Haim Zalman Dimitrovsky zal and Aramaic philology under Prof. Franz Rosenthal, set off on a course of talmudic text criticism and philology. His path was significantly broadened via a year of teaching at Yale University in 1982 where he studied with critics of the caliber of Profs. Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom. An Israeli colleague, also teaching at Yale for the year, was overheard saying, "but in Israel, he is so boring." The bulk of his academic career has been spent at UC Berkeley, mentoring inter alia such distinguished Yale scholars as Prof. Christine Hayes and Eliyahu Stern. His intellectual path has thus been tied to this institution almost ab origine.
