About Rachel Adelman

NBN Episodes hosted by Rachel:

Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)

February 15, 2023

Texts After Terror

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 He…

J. Richard Middleton, "Abraham's Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God" (Baker Academic, 2021)

November 9, 2022

Abraham's Silence

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 poi…

Noam Sachs Zion, "Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy" (Jewish Publication Society, 2021)

December 31, 2021

Sanctified Sex

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 deb…

Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)

August 9, 2021

On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel

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 a…

Sarit Kattan Gribetz, "Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism" (Princeton UP, 2020)

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.…

R. Rosenberg and R. Rubinstein, "Teaching Jewish American Literature" (MLA, 2020)

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 Je…

Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, "Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth" (ASP, 2017)

July 15, 2020

Holiness and Transgression

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…

Mara Benjamin, "The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2018)

June 25, 2020

The Obligated Self

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 T…

James A. Diamond, "Jewish Theology Unbound" (Oxford UP, 2018)

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 widesp…

Jonathan Sarna, "American Judaism: A History" (Yale UP, 2019)

September 25, 2019

American Judaism

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 A…