Dialogues in Judaic Studies
By Ari Barbalat
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Episodes: 45
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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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Ari Ackerman, *Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation: The Infinite God and the Expanding Torah*. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Lindsey Davidson, *Scribal Culture in Ben Sira*. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Aubrey Buster, *Remembering the Story of Israel: Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Katell Berthelot, *Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Rinat Harash, *Apollo, Dionysus and the Ubermensch at Sinai: An Attempt at a Nietzschean Analysis*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
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May 29, 2026 |
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Stephanie Binder, *Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
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May 28, 2026 |
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Rhiannon Graybill, *Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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May 27, 2026 |
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Getachew Metaferia, ed., *Ethiopia and the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Antiquity to Modernity*. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2025.
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May 22, 2026 |
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Bruce Wells, ed., *The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible*. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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May 20, 2026 |
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Megan Roberts, *Memory Formation in Isaiah 40–55: Poetic Reimagination that Accomplishes Comfort*. Leiden: Brill, 2025.
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May 19, 2026 |
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Eva Tyrell, *Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings: Evoking Reality in Ancient Narratives of a Past*. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
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May 15, 2026 |
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Jacob Wright, *Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins*. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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May 11, 2026 |
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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.
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May 10, 2026 |
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Mark Scarlata, *The Theology of the Book of Leviticus*. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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May 10, 2026 |
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Kamilah Hall Sharp, *Trauma and Survival: A Womanist Reading of Esther*. London: T&T Clark, 2026.
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May 08, 2026 |
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Françoise Mirguet, *An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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May 05, 2026 |
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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.
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, *Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls*. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022.
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Matthew S. Goldstone, *The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke: Leviticus 19:17 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation*. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Jason Silverman, *Persian Royal-Judaean Elite Engagements in the Early Teispid and Achaemenid Empire: The King's Acolytes*. London: T&T Clark, 2020.
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Elisa Uusimäki, *Lived Wisdom in Jewish Antiquity: Studies in Exercise and Exemplarity*. London: T & T Clark, 2016.
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Carmel Cassar, *Mediterranean Jews, Crypto-Jews and the Inquisition in Early Modern Malta*. Msida, Malta: University of Malta Press, 2024.
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Stephen Wunrow, *Passing Through the Heavens: Heavenly Space in Hebrews and its Jewish and Christian Environment*. London: T&T Clark (Bloomsbury Publishers), 2025.
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Josiah Peeler, *Punning in Odd Or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah: The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah*. Tubingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2025.
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Matthew Suriano, *A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Bruno Clifton, *Family and Identity in the Book of Judges*. Leiden: Brill, 2022
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Yigal Levin, *The Chronicles of David and Solomon: 1 Chronicles 10-2 Chronicles 9: A New Translation and Commentary*. London: T & T Clark, 2026.
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Topias Tanskanen, *Jacob in Jubilees: Jacob, the Torah and the Abrahamic Promise*. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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David Graizbord, ed., *Early Modern Jewish Civilization Unity and Diversity in a Diasporic Society: An Introduction*. New York: Routledge, 2024.
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Laura Lieber, *Staging the Sacred: Theatricality and Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Matthew Goff, Greg Schmidt Goering and Samuel Adams, *Sirach and Its Contexts: The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing*. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Gustavo Guzman, *Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews*. New York: Routledge, 2026.
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow, *The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible: An Analysis of Josephus and 4 Ezra*. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Joseph Scales, *Galilean Spaces of Identity: Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee*. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Kristine Henriksen Garroway, *The Dying Child: The Death and Personhood of Children in Ancient Israel*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Rebecca Harris, *Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls: Living in the Liminal*. Leiden: Brill, 2026.
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Rina Lapidus, *Russian Ideational Roots of Jewish Thought and Hebrew Literature*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024.
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Ursula Westwood, *Moses Among the Greek Lawgivers: Reading Josephus’ Antiquities through Plutarch’s Lives*. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Jordan Henderson, *Defeat and Deliverance: Prefigurements of the Jewish Revolt against Rome in Josephus' Depictions of Past Invasions of Jerusalem*. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2026.
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Roni Weinstein, *Joseph Karo and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Law: The Early Modern Ottoman and Global Settings*. London: Anthem Press, 2022.
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Golan Moskowitz, *Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context*. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Mark L. Smith, *Building and Consoling a Nation: The Yiddish Historians in their Own Words*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Debby Koren, *Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024.
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Josef Mendelevitch, *The Cantonists: Jewish Boys in the Russian Military, 1827-1856*. Rachelle Emanuel, trans. Boston: Academic Studies Press (in Partnership with Touro University Press in New York), 2025.
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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David Edwards, *In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus*. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2023.
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Jan 21, 2026 |