Notice from Diane Dix about 2 on-campus opportunities THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015

The 2014-2015 Willis D. Wood/Religion Lecture

Daniel Boyarin

Department of Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley

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Thursday, February 5, 2015 5:00 p.m. Adele Reinhartz Pryune Lecture Hall, Fayerweather 115 Departments of Classics and Religious Studies Amherst College

“The Hollywood ”

Thursday, February 5, 2015 4:00 p.m., Chapin Hall 101

Amherst College Sponsored by the Willis D. Wood Fund and the Religion Daniel Boyarin, Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Department at Amherst College Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Free and Open to the Public Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley, received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Adele Reinhartz, PhD (McMaster University, 1983) is America. He has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies America, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Bar-Ilan at the University of Ottawa, in Canada. Her main areas of University, with visiting appointments at Hebrew University in research are New Testament, early Jewish-Christian relations, Jerusalem, Yale University, Yeshiva University, Harvard the and Film, and feminist . She is the Divinity School and the Pontifical Universita Gregoriana in author of numerous articles and books, including Befriending Rome. He is the author of more than ten books, including the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of "Carnal Israel; Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture" (1993), "A John (Continuum, 2001), Scripture on the Silver Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity" (1994), "Dying Screen (Westminster John Knox, 2003), Jesus of for God: Martyrdom and the Making of and Hollywood (Oxford, 2007), Caiaphas the High Judaism" (1999), and "Socrates and the Fat Rabbis" (2009). Priest (University of South Carolina Press, 2011; Fortress 2012) He is also the author of more than one hundred fifty scholarly and Bible and Cinema: An Introduction (Routledge, essays in English and Hebrew. Professor Boyarin is also an 2013). Adele is the General Editor of the Journal of Biblical affiliated member in the Department of Women's Studies, a Literature. She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in member of core faculty in the minor in Gay and Lesbian 2005. Studies and of the graduate group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, and the designated emphasis in Women, Sexuality, Gender Studies, as well as the core faculty of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. The lecture is sponsored by the Willis D. Wood Fund and is free and open to the public.