Nathaniel Deutsch

Nathaniel Deutsch is an American religious scholar. He is a specialist in Judaism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity and is on the faculty of University of California, Santa Cruz.

Career

Deutsch attended the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. as well as his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees.

Deutsch has taught religion at Swarthmore, and is currently a Professor of Literature and History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also is director of the University's Jewish Studies Center. Deutsch was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 to support his research on the Jewish ethnographer S. Ansky for his forthcoming book, The People’s Torah: Ansky and the Invention of Jewish Ethnography.

Works

• Inventing America's 'Worst' Family; Eugenics, Islam and the Fall and Rise of The Tribe of Ishmael (2009)
• The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World (2003)
  • Maiden of Ludmir
  • National Jewish Book Award finalist
• Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism (2000, co-editor with Yvonne Chireau)
  • Black Jews and black-Jewish relations in the United States
• The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism (1995)
  • Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and merkabah (early Jewish mystic beliefs)
• Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity (1999)
  • Vice-regency of angels in late antiquity

External links

• "Swarthmore Professor Named 2006 Guggenheim Fellow" (Swarthmore press release)

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