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About Rachel Adelman
NBN Episodes hosted by Rachel:
July 16, 2024
The Poetics of Prophecy
Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studie…
February 15, 2023
Texts After Terror
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 He…
November 9, 2022
Abraham's Silence
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 poi…
December 31, 2021
Sanctified Sex
Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy (Jewish Publication Society, 2021) draws on two thousand years of rabbinic deb…
August 9, 2021
On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel
Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs a…
January 26, 2021
Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism
The rabbinic corpus begins with a question–“when?”—and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour.…
October 9, 2020
Teaching Jewish American Literature
In this interview, Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein (editors), engage our listeners in a conversation about different approaches to teaching Je…
July 15, 2020
Holiness and Transgression
In this interview, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discusses her first book, Holiness and Transgression Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth, with Rachel…
June 25, 2020
The Obligated Self
In this talk, Rachel Adelman engages Mara Benjamin in a conversation about her most recent book, The Obligated Self—Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish T…
June 11, 2020
Jewish Theology Unbound
James A. Diamond discusses his new book, Jewish Theology Unbound (Oxford University Press, 2018), with Rachel Adelman. This book challenges the widesp…
September 25, 2019
American Judaism
American Judaism: A History (Yale University Press; second edition, 2019) chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing A…