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Jewish Studies May 2, 2018

Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals

The Talmud After the Humanities

Mira Beth Wasserman

Hosted by Phillip Sherman
In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Talmud's most …
Jewish Studies April 5, 2018

Blood for Thought

The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature

Mira Balberg

Hosted by Phillip Sherman
Mira Balberg's Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2017) delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus …
Jewish Studies September 26, 2017

Rabbi Akiva

Sage of the Talmud

Barry Holtz

Hosted by Phillip Sherman
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 as …
Biblical Studies August 29, 2017

Denying Her Voice

The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature

Hanna Tervanotko

Hosted by Phillip Sherman
In Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature (Vandenhock and Ruprecht, 2016) Hanna Tervanotko first analyzes the treatment and development of Miriam as a literary character …
Religion August 9, 2017

Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers

Daniel Dreisbach

Hosted by Phillip Sherman
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 political discourse of …
Biblical Studies April 7, 2017

Are We Not Men?

Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets

Rhiannon Graybill

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Rhiannon Graybill's Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets (Oxford University Press, 2016) offers an innovative approach to gender and embodiment in the Hebrew Bible, revealing the …
Biblical Studies March 9, 2017

The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World

Jordan D. Rosenblum

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In The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how cultures critique and defend their religious food practices. In particular he focuses on how ancient Jews …
Biblical Studies January 25, 2017

Strangers Below

Primitive Baptists in American Culture

Joshua Guthman

Hosted by Phillip Sherman
Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over the faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand. In …
Biblical Studies December 23, 2016

The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity

Eva Mroczek

Hosted by Phillip Sherman
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 revealed books not found in …
Jewish Studies December 12, 2016

Pious Irreverence

Confront God in Rabbinic Judaism

Dov Weiss

Hosted by Phillip Sherman
Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first expressed …