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February 15, 2023
Texts After Terror
Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible
Rhiannon Graybill
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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
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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 …