Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaxim D. Shrayer, "I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
Episode 454
In I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah (Academic Studies Press, 2013), based on archival and field research and p…
2 years, 6 months ago
Mira Balberg, "Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 453
The Rabbinic Sages of the Tannaitic era were fixated on memory and terrified of forgetfulness. In promulgating their own interpretations of Jewish la…
2 years, 6 months ago
Building Wells of Patience
Episode 6
In this week's episode, David and Modya discuss where patience may be found within the Torah portion of Toldot. As they look into the text and are ch…
2 years, 6 months ago
Steven B. Bowman, "Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
Episode 452
Today I talked to Steven B. Bowman about his book Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel (Wayne State UP, 2022).
Sepher Yosippon w…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dalia Kandiyoti, "The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Episode 451
Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hid…
2 years, 6 months ago
Walter A. Maier III, "1 Kings 12-22: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia, 2019)
Episode 137
The book of Kings tracks the division of Israel's kingdom into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah, narrating each one's…
2 years, 6 months ago
Walter A. Maier III, "1 Kings 1-11: Concordia Commentary" (Concordia, 2018)
Episode 137
The book of Kings in the Bible records more than 380 years of the history of Israel and its monarchy, from the last part of David’s rule to the end o…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Flow of Patience
Episode 5
In this week's episode, Modya and David discuss the Torah portion of Hayyei Sarah and what it teaches about the middah (trait) of patience. They note…
2 years, 7 months ago
Austin Surls, "Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus: From Etymology to Literary Onomastics" (Eisenbrauns, 2017)
Episode 135
The obvious riddles and difficulties in Exodus 3:13-15 and 6:2-8 have attracted an overwhelming amount of attention and comment. These texts make imp…
2 years, 7 months ago
Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Episode 19
In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual He…
2 years, 7 months ago