Dialogues in Judaic Studies
Ari Barbalat
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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.
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Lindsey Davidson, *Scribal Culture in Ben Sira*. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
This monograph explores the concept of scribal culture as a lens for analyzing the characteristics of textual referencing in the Book of Ben Sira (c.198-175 BCE), offering fresh perspectives on how…
Ari Ackerman, *Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation: The Infinite God and the Expanding Torah*. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
This study investigates the understanding of God as presented by the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It illustrates that Crescas perceives God as…
S1E44 Ari Ackerman, *Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation: The Infinite God and the Expanding Torah*. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
This study investigates the understanding of God as presented by the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It illustrates that Crescas perceives God as…
Aubrey Buster, *Remembering the Story of Israel: Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
In this book, Aubrey Buster reveals how techniques taken from cultural and social memory studies, along with the new formalism, can illuminate the communal importance of biblical and extra-biblical…
Katell Berthelot, *Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Throughout their history, Jews have been under the sway of various imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. This monograph illustrates how the Roman Empire…
S1E41 Rinat Harash, *Apollo, Dionysus and the Ubermensch at Sinai: An Attempt at a Nietzschean Analysis*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
The biblical narrative surrounding Sinai and Moses is pivotal to Jewish and Western culture; however, it has often been regarded only from a religious perspective. In this study, Dr. Rinat Harash…
Stephanie Binder, *Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
This study investigates Tertullian, known as the first individual to articulate Christian theology in Latin. It emphasizes the critical issues that are essential for understanding his biography and…
Rhiannon Graybill, *Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
This monograph presents an innovative perspective on gender and embodiment as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. It argues that prophecy disrupts traditional notions of masculinity and alters the way the…
Getachew Metaferia, ed., *Ethiopia and the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Antiquity to Modernity*. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2025.
Rich in historical significance and contemporary relevance, this monograph provides readers with a deep understanding of Ethiopia’s enduring role in the Judeo-Christian narrative—spanning from the…
Bruce Wells, ed., *The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible*. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
This work offers a detailed overview of the history, essence, and impact of biblical law. It delves into the discussions surrounding the nature of biblical law, analyzing its historical backdrop, the…
Megan Roberts, *Memory Formation in Isaiah 40–55: Poetic Reimagination that Accomplishes Comfort*. Leiden: Brill, 2025.
Scholars agree that comfort and memory are key, interrelated themes in Isaiah 40–55; however, the notion of collective memory has not been specifically investigated to shed light on the link between…
Eva Tyrell, *Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings: Evoking Reality in Ancient Narratives of a Past*. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
In this scholarly work, Eva Tyrell undertakes a comparative analysis of narrative devices in two prominent ancient texts that reflect on the past. By fusing a narratological approach with…
S1E34 Jacob Wright, *Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins*. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Why is the Bible considered a creation of ancient Israel instead of another ancient culture? The notion that a small, isolated community could generate a literary work of such global significance…
Pierre Anctil and Richard Menkis, eds., *In a "Land of Hope": Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, 1627-1923, Volume 1*. Toronto: Champlain Society, 2023.
The history of the Jewish community is a tale of a non-Christian minority that has, for much of Canadian history, faced marginalization by the Anglo-Protestant and French-Catholic majorities. Despite…
Mark Scarlata, *The Theology of the Book of Leviticus*. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
The Book of Leviticus in the Pentateuch is often seen as one of the most challenging books of the Bible, mainly due to its focus on blood sacrifice, infectious diseases, and intricate dietary…
Kamilah Hall Sharp, *Trauma and Survival: A Womanist Reading of Esther*. London: T&T Clark, 2026.
This text fuses womanist biblical interpretation with trauma theory, while comprehensively examining survival and the language that accompanies it in the Hebrew Bible. Although survival is a central…
S1E31 Françoise Mirguet, *An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
In this remarkable book, Françoise Mirguet intricately outlines the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities during Late Antiquity. In this scholarly discourse,…
S1E30 Catherine Hezser, ed., *The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. First published in paperback in 2020.
Developed by a celebrated and interdisciplinary collective of scholars from around the globe, *The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine* stands as a vital reference source on the…
S1E29 Rinat Harash, *Apollo, Dionysus and the Ubermensch at Sinai: An Attempt at a Nietzschean Analysis*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
The biblical narrative surrounding Sinai and Moses is pivotal to Jewish and Western culture; however, it has often been regarded only from a religious perspective.In this study, Dr. Rinat Harash…
S1E28 Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, *Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls*. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022.
Since the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, their material evidence and compelling content have fascinated both scholars and the general public. Regarded as one of the most significant…
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Dialogues in Judaic Studies has published 45 episodes since January 2026, covering topics in History, Judaism.
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