Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard

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EILBERG-SCHWARTZ, Howard

EILBERG-SCHWARTZ, Howard. American, b. 1956. Genres: Theology/Religion. Career: Indiana University-Bloomington, assistant professor of religious studies, 1986-89; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, assistant professor of religious studies, 1989-90; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, assistant professor of religious studies, 1990-94; San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, associate professor of religious studies and director of Jewish studies, both 1994-. Publications: The Human Will in Judaism, 1988; The Savage in Judaism, 1990; (ed.) People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective, 1992; God's Phallus: And Other Problems for Men and Monotheism, 1994; (ed.) Off with Her Head: The Denial of Female Identity in Religion, Myth and Culture, 1995. Address: Jewish Studies Program, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132, U.S.A.

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