Daniel Boayrin 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 and Affiliated Member Department of Women’s Studies, Member of core faculty in the minor in Gay and Lesbian 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. His published works on Talmud, Rabbinic Judaism, and Early Christianity have revolutionized those fields and include Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity, and The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ.