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About Phillip Sherman
NBN Episodes hosted by Phillip:
May 2, 2018
Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals
In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close…
April 5, 2018
Blood for Thought
Mira Balberg's Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2017) delves into a relat…
September 26, 2017
Rabbi Akiva
Born in the Land of Israel around the year 50 C.E., Rabbi Akiva was the greatest rabbi of his time and one of the most important influences on Judaism…
August 29, 2017
Denying Her Voice
In Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature (Vandenhock and Ruprecht, 2016) Hanna Tervanotko first analyzes the treatment …
August 9, 2017
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the poli…
April 7, 2017
Are We Not Men?
Rhiannon Graybill's Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets (Oxford University Press, 2016) offers an innovative approach to gende…
March 9, 2017
The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World
In The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how cultures critique and defend their religious food practices. In parti…
January 25, 2017
Strangers Below
Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over the faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self…
December 23, 2016
The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from multiple versions of biblical texts to reve…
December 12, 2016
Pious Irreverence
Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endors…