Nathaniel Deutsch

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Nathaniel Deutsch is an American religious scholar. He is a specialist in Judaism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity and is on the faculty of Swarthmore College.

[edit] 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 since 1995, and is currently an associate professor. He serves as chair of the college's humanities division and the interpretation theory program, and co-founded the Beit Midrash Center for the Study of Classical Jewish Texts. 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.

[edit] Works

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