Graduate Theological Union
Graduate Theological Union & Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies
In residence faculty

At GTU since 1986

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1977

Phone: 510/649-2482
E-mail: biale@gtu.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Jewish Political Theory and Messianism
• Jews and Christians
• Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History: Medieval and Modern
• Gender and Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition

Selected Publications

• Editor, "Cultures of the Jews: A New History" (Schocken Books, 2002).
• "Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol in Jewish Culture" (forthcoming).
• Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism. "Between Melancholy and a Broken Heart: A Note on Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Depression," Graven Images 3 (1996), 107-111.
• "Messianism and Modernity in Modern Jewish Historical Thought," in What is Modern About the Modern Jewish Experience, ed. Marc Raphael (Williamsburg: William and Mary Press, 1997), 5-16.
• "Sexology and the Jews," in Jewish Writing in German, ed. Sander Gilman and Jack Zipes (New Haven: Yale University, 1997).