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Jewish Studies February 15, 2023

Texts After Terror

Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible

Rhiannon Graybill

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible (Oxford UP, 2021) offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible …
Jewish Studies November 9, 2022

Abraham's Silence

The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God

J. Richard Middleton

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
It is traditional to think we should praise Abraham for his willingness to sacrifice his son as proof of his love for God. But have we misread the point of …
Jewish Studies December 31, 2021

Sanctified Sex

The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy

Noam Sachs Zion

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy (Jewish Publication Society, 2021) draws on two thousand years of rabbinic debates addressing competing aspirations for loving intimacy, passionate sexual union …
Jewish Studies August 9, 2021

On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel

Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture

Mika Ahuvia

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as …
Jewish Studies January 26, 2021

Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism

Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
The rabbinic corpus begins with a question–“when?”—and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton UP, 2020) explores …
Jewish Studies October 9, 2020

Teaching Jewish American Literature

Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this interview, Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein (editors), engage our listeners in a conversation about different approaches to teaching Jewish American Literature, complicating what it means to be “American” …
Jewish Studies July 15, 2020

Holiness and Transgression

Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth

Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this interview, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discusses her first book, Holiness and Transgression Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth, with Rachel Adelman. Translated by Eugene Matansky and published …
Jewish Studies June 25, 2020

The Obligated Self

Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought

Mara Benjamin

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this talk, Rachel Adelman engages Mara Benjamin in a conversation about her most recent book, The Obligated Self—Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press, 2018). Benjamin contends that …
Jewish Studies June 11, 2020

Jewish Theology Unbound

James A. Diamond

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
James A. Diamond discusses his new book, Jewish Theology Unbound (Oxford University Press, 2018), with Rachel Adelman. This book challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law …
Jewish Studies September 25, 2019

American Judaism

A History (2nd edition)

Jonathan Sarna

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
American Judaism: A History (Yale University Press; second edition, 2019) chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era …