Religious disaffiliation has been found to occur at higher rates in LGBTQ+ individuals than heterosexual and the general population. In this brief report, we explore whether people who disaffiliated from Orthodox Judaism attributed sexual identity and/or Judaism’s lack of acceptance homosexuality their disaffiliation. This analysis focuses on 117 identified as were drawn a larger study that inc...

My specific project in this paper is to combine several related and notorious questions in the history of Judaism into one: What is the nexus among the semidivine (or high angel) figure known in the Talmud as Metạtṛon, the figure of the exalted Enoch in the Enoch books (1-3 Enoch!), “The One Like a Son of Man” of Daniel, Jesus, the Son of Man, and the rabbinically named heresy of “Two Powers/So...