Ancient History

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e-TiM: With Bible and Spade: Explorers, Archaeologists and Teachers of the Land of Israel

Shulie Mishkin

December 5 Foundations: The early explorers of the Land: Edward Robinson, Charles Warren, Charles Wilson, Conrad Schick and Flinders Petrie. Sites: City of David, Temple Mount area December 12 The First Israeli Archaeologists: Eliezer Sukienik,…
Program

Sefer Yonah -Its Structure and Messages in Biblical and Historical Context (Part 1)

Dr. Beni Gesundheit

Audio

Beyond the Text, Into Their World: Experiencing the Realia of Talmudic Life (Part 7)

Shulie Mishkin

Audio

41. Ethics of the Fathers

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Yair Furstenberg contextualize the ethical teachings of the Tannaim.   
Podcast

Beyond the Text, Into Their World: Experiencing the Realia of Talmudic Life (Part 2)

Shulie Mishkin

Audio

Were Both Temples Really Destroyed on the Same Day? The Meaning of History and Memory 

Rabbi Adam Mintz

Audio

36. The Talmud in Context

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Shai Secunda set Talmudic discourse ablaze. They put the Talmud in its Zoroastrian and Sasanian context, and have bloody good discussion about how Judaism interacted with its socio-religious environment in the first few centuries of the…
Podcast

34. Josephus

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Martin Goodman go antiquing! They discuss the most important Jewish historian of the Roman period–Josephus Flavius. What did he write? Who was he writing for? And what ideological framework motivated his histories? 
Podcast

Beyond the Text, Into Their World: Experiencing the Realia of Talmudic Life (Part 1)

Shulie Mishkin

Audio

e-TiM: Beyond the Text, Into Their World: Experiencing the Realia of Talmudic Life

Shulie Mishkin

Beyond the Text, Into Their World: Experiencing the Realia of Talmudic Life Shulie Mishkin Thursdays, 12:00pm Eastern, 7:00pm Israel Time What was life like in the time of the Mishnah and the Gemara? How were the experiences different? Join Shulie…
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