“‘Original’ would be an understatement for this ambitious, capacious book. Reading Gestating Judaism is like floating in a bracing sea of Talmud, one scattered with pomegranates, chameleons, and arguments with Max Weber. By resisting the binary between the social sciences and rabbinic discourse, Rock-Singer charts a new course for Jewish studies and political theology. A must-read! Stay until the end: you don’t want to miss what happens to Leviathan.”

Jodi Eichler-Levine, Lehigh University

“Gestating Judaism provides capacious approaches to questions of gender and embodiment. By crossing and re-crossing well-worn divisions between mind and body, here and there, now and then, religion and secularism, texts and practices, modern and traditional, reality and representation, Rock-Singer crafts multiple livable worlds in which grief and loss abide, as do joy and possibility.”

Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College

“Rock-Singer has produced a fascinating, resonant, and deeply necessary book that gestates new hybrids and nurtures the alchemical links between seemingly disconnected fields. Gestating Judaism will define the next generation of the unfurling crossbreeds of science and religion studies, Jewish studies, and cutting-edge theories of science and technology.”

Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania