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.
Dialogues in Judaic Studies
Latest Episodes
Agnes Judith Goppinger, *Moribus Antiquis Res Stat Iudaea Virisque: Exempla in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Iudaicae*. Leiden: Brill, 2026
Josephus' Antiquities offers a thoughtful and detailed exploration of Jewish history, tracing its arc from the world's origins to the outbreak of the Jewish War. Yet we might pause to consider a meaningful question: whose stories truly shape th...
Shawn Zelig Aster, *Reflections of Empire in Isaiah 1-39: Responses to Assyrian Ideology*. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017.
Shawn Zelig Aster's monograph establishes a compelling connection between First Isaiah's prophecies and the eighth century BCE historical landscape, when Assyrian power dominated the ancient Near East. Through meticulous analysis of Isaiah 1–2,...
Yaacov Maoz, *Jerusalem and Nineveh: The Renewal of Aramit-Ashurit in Israel and the Alliance between Israel and Assyria*. Toronto [English Version]: Self-Published by the Author on behalf of *Lishana: Aramit Renewal in Israel*, 2025.
This is the first time a work has been produced to jointly document the history of the Assyrian Christian and Jewish peoples. The two civilizations occupy positions within a restricted collection of peoples whose endeavors and achievements fund...
Gerbern Oegema, *The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
This in-depth exploration examines the Old Testament Apocrypha—respected ancient Jewish texts that have gained deutero-canonical recognition in some Christian traditions, remain excluded from canons in others, and continue to shape cultural dis...
Brad Kelle, *The Bible and Moral Injury: Reading Scripture Alongside War's Unseen Wounds*. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.
This monograph presents a comprehensive examination, incorporating case studies, of how biblical texts—particularly those addressing warfare and rituals in the Old Testament—relate to the contemporary concept of moral injury as understood acros...
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