Dialogues in Judaic Studies
This podcast features educational, informative and intellectually compelling conversations with authors of newly-published books and recently-released monographs on Jewish history, Jewish religion, Jewish philosophy and Jewish literature. The podcast intends to reach academic specialists, members of the reading public and beginners with entry-level curiosity.
Podcasting since 2026 • 18 episodes
Dialogues in Judaic Studies
Latest Episodes
David Graizbord, ed., *Early Modern Jewish Civilization Unity and Diversity in a Diasporic Society: An Introduction*. New York: Routledge, 2024.
This compilation serves as a foundational historical overview and a selective cultural examination of the evolution, unification, and eventual decline of a diasporic civilization—the Jewish community during the early modern era (approximately 1...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:09:09
Laura Lieber, *Staging the Sacred: Theatricality and Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023
This book investigates the liturgical poetry of Christian, Jewish, and Samaritan traditions from late antiquity, approximately during the third to fourth century CE. It examines this poetry in the context of biblical interpretation and prayer c...
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Episode 17
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1:36:27
Matthew Goff, Greg Schmidt Goering and Samuel Adams, *Sirach and Its Contexts: The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing*. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
In *Sirach and Its Contexts*, a varied group of scholars who focus on the book of Sirach place this second-century BCE Jewish wisdom text within its numerous contexts: literary, historical, philosophical, textual, cultural, and political. Compi...
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Episode 16
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Gustavo Guzman, *Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews*. New York: Routledge, 2026.
This book investigates the perspectives of Chilean President Salvador Allende and General Augusto Pinochet regarding Jews and the State of Israel.Throughout his political journey, Allende demonstrated solidarity with European Jews durin...
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Episode 15
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1:38:44
Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow, *The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible: An Analysis of Josephus and 4 Ezra*. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
In this monograph, Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow explores the challenging question of when, how, and why the set of twenty-four books known today as the Hebrew Bible was compiled. He thoroughly investigates the two earliest sources on this topic—J...
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Episode 14
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