Dan Jacobs Podcast by Dan Jacobs

Episodes 5

Avg. Duration 18m

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Since Jan 2026

Latest Episode Feb 2026

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About This Podcast

Audio editions of long-form essays by Dan Jacobs on Jewish history, antisemitism, politics, and the ideas that shape identity.

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Parting Ways (5/5): Empire, enforcement, and the split that never ended

Feb 25, 2026 21m

Show notes: Part 5 — Empire, enforcement, and the split that never endedIn this episode, we follow the parting of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity into the fourth and fifth centuries, when…

S1E4 Parting Ways (4/5): Who owns Israel’s library? The Bible through rabbinic and Christian Greek reading worlds

Feb 18, 2026 18m

Show notes: Part 4 – Who owns Israel’s library?Episode summaryBy the second and third centuries, the question is no longer mainly how gentiles enter Israel’s story. It is who gets to tell the story…

S1E3 Parting Ways (3/5): When the centre of gravity changed, and both sides drew borders

Feb 11, 2026 13m

Show notes: Part 3 – When the centre of gravity changedEpisode summaryIn the mid-first century, Jesus-following still sits inside Jewish communal life: calendar, food, synagogue habit, inherited…

S1E2 Parting Ways (2/5): A Jewish Jesus movement, and the fight over Torah law

Feb 03, 2026 17m

Show notesIn this episodePart 2 follows the Jesus movement before it became a separate religion. In the first decades after Jesus’s death, the argument was still internal: how to read Torah in what…

S1E1 Parting Ways (1/5): From Temple to text, law, and argument

Jan 30, 2026 17m

Parting Ways (1/5): The emergence of rabbinic Judaism and ChristianityFrom Temple to text, law, and argumentDan JacobsReligious splits are rarely neat. Part 1 begins in the late Second Temple world,…