Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 204
Building on the success of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés, this follow up volume dismantles a further 10 widespread stereotypes and cliché…
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Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)
With An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996 (Ohio University Press, 2023), historian Anna Müller has produced a beautifully writ…
2 years, 11 months ago
Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 161
This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe a…
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David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 243
Jesus changed our world forever. But who was he and what do we know about him? David Wenham's Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure…
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Yaakov Beasley, "Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley" (Maggid, 2020)
Episode 411
What do we do when God is silent? This question was asked by the ancient Jewish people during their darkest era, the seventh century BCE. Assyrian ar…
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Illuminations Episode 9: Rituals for a Dying World
Episode 73
Absorbing the full reality of climate change will require more than a scientific approach. Some American Jews are showing how religious ritual can he…
2 years, 11 months ago
W. Gil Shin, "The 'Exodus' in Jerusalem (Luke 9:31): A Lukan Form of Israel's Restoration Hope" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 112
There has been a dearth of study in Lukan scholarship on the transfiguration account and the enigmatic statement about Jesus' "exodus" in Jerusalem. …
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Daniel A. Klein, "Shadal on Numbers: Samuel David Luzzatto's Interpretation of the Book of Bemidbar" (Kodesh Press, 2023)
Episode 409
Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865), known by his Hebrew acronym, Shadal, was the leading Italian Jewish scholar of the 19th century. Now, for the firs…
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Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 253
Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fol…
2 years, 11 months ago
Pinchas Blitt, "A Promise of Sweet Tea" (Azrieli Foundation, 2021)
Episode 408
Today I talked to Pinchas Blitt about his Holocaust memoir A Promise of Sweet Tea (Azrieli Foundation, 2021).
In a village in prewar Eastern Europe, y…
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