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Season 2
Dan Libenson of the Judaism Unbound podcast returns to the show. This time we discuss best-selling Israeli author Yochi Brandes' novel 'The Orchard'.…
8 years, 4 months ago
Recovering the Bible: A Century of Revelations
Season 2 Episode 17
So much to cover: the discovery of the oldest Jewish bible, the Leningrad Codex; and the oldest Christian bible, the Codex Sinaticus. At the Cairo Ge…
8 years, 5 months ago
Meet the Neighbours: Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes
Season 2 Episode 16
As the Tanakh tells it, the Jewish nation comprised a united body-politic from the fall of the kingdom of Israel right through the return. The only d…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Rise and Ruin of the Maccabeans
Season 2 Episode 15
The Maccabeans reach their apogee under John Hyrcanus I, and his sons Aristobulus and Alexander Jannaeus. Alexander's widow, Alexandra Salome, became…
8 years, 6 months ago
Grappling with the Greeks V: Jubilees Reconstructs Judaism
Season 2 Episode 14
The Book of Jubilees was preserved by the Ethiopian Orthodox. Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it was held to be a parody of Jewish thoug…
8 years, 6 months ago
Grappling with the Greeks IV: Daniel and the Book of Parables
Season 2 Episode 13
The book of Daniel is one-half comfy folktales, and one-half crazy. It was the only one of the many Jewish apocalyptic books to make it into the Old …
8 years, 7 months ago
Grappling with the Greeks III: The Maccabeans Revolt
Season 2 Episode 12
Rival high priests Jason and Menelaus plunge Judah into turmoil. Many Jews thought that both Jason and Menelaus were too Greek for their own good. An…
8 years, 7 months ago
Grappling With the Greeks II: Jerusalem Against Athens
Season 2 Episode 11
The Judeans spent 120 happy years under the Hellenistic rule of the Egyptian Ptolemies. They chafed under the rule of the Hellenistic kingdom of the …
8 years, 8 months ago
Grappling with the Greeks I: Josephus and the Books of Maccabees
Season 2 Episode 10
First in a mini-series on the history of the Jews and the province of Judea under the Hellenistic empires, and under the Maccabees. I start with a su…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Apocalypse to End Them All: 1 Enoch
Season 2 Episode 9
Apocalypses were popular reading amongst Jews in the centuries they spent under Roman rule. Rabbinical Judaism blotted the apocalypses from its colle…
8 years, 8 months ago