Podcast Episodes
76. Biblical Attitudes | Dr. Ethan Schwartz (Universalism & Particularism #1)
J.J. and Dr. Ethan Schwartz explore the categories of religious universalism and particularism in the Bible.
This is the first episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we will explore and complicate Jewish attitudes to these categories across the centuries.
75. The Book of Ben Sira | Dr. Michael Satlow
J.J. and Dr. Michael Satlow offer an authentic account of this apocryphal book of wisdom literature.
74. The Global Haskalah | Dr. Lital Levy
J.J. and Dr. Lital Levy explore the Jewish Nahda, and the border-ignoring breadth of the Haskalah.
73. Offerings and Sacrifices | Dr. Shlomo Zuckier
J.J. and Dr. Shlomo Zuckier offer up some sweet-smelling insight into the history and future of sacrifices.
72. Piyyut and Midrash | Dr. Tzvi Novick
J.J. and Dr. Tzvi Novick talk prayer, poetry, homily, and some very-old-fashioned exegesis.
71. Heinrich Graetz | Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger
J.J. and Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger discuss the work and impact of the most influential Jewish Historian since Josephus.
70. Jewish Neoplatonism | Dr. Sarah Pessin
J.J. and Dr. Sarah Pessin overflow with curiosity about the poetic philosophy of the Medieval Jewish Neoplatonists.
69. American-Israeli Thought | Dr. Adam Ferziger
J.J. and Dr. Adam Ferziger crisscross the Atlantic to better understand the influence of American Orthodoxy on Israel, and vice versa.
68. Yitzchak Hutner | Dr. Alon Shalev
J.J. and Dr. Alon Shalev discuss the iconoclastic ideas and character of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner.
67. Natural Law and Judaism | Dr. David Novak
J.J. and Dr. David Novak hike through the forest of Natural Law, and stop to examine some (Jewish) trees therein.