Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 357
Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Tor…
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Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 187
A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a unique introduction to studying…
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Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Episode 358
The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Th…
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Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 89
Is the search for meaning a luxury of the modern world or have human beings always struggled to find meaning in the human condition – in the face of …
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Chris Webb, "The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem, 2016)
Episode 356
Chris Webb's The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (Ibidem, 2016) is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, w…
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Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)
Episode 365
A century after being expelled from Portugal, cryptoJews in Mexico, false converts to Christianity, could not speak of their beliefs for fear of beco…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
Season 1 Episode 33
Professor Cathleen Chopra-McGowan examines some the incongruities of our Bible in the context of the Ancient Near East, showing how the stories and t…
3 years, 4 months ago
Menachem Brod, "In Search of Truth: Three Yeshiva Students on a Spiritual Journey" (BSD Publishers, 2022)
Episode 353
Menachem Brod's In Search of Truth: Three Yeshiva Students on a Spiritual Journey (BSD Publishers, 2022) describes the struggle of yeshiva students s…
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Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture
Season 1 Episode 32
Historian John Jeffries Martin traces narratives of the Apocalypse over the last 500 years in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions in his new…
3 years, 4 months ago
Radu Ioanid, "The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Episode 354
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores i…
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