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Wine & Beer in the Talmud with Professor Jordan Rosenblum (Podcast)
Read more: Wine & Beer in the Talmud with Professor Jordan Rosenblum (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Jordan Rosenblum, who is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Director of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and he’s also the author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature (published by the University of California Press). In…
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Wine & the Mishnah with Rabbi Drew Kaplan (Podcast)
Read more: Wine & the Mishnah with Rabbi Drew Kaplan (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Rabbi Drew Kaplan, who is Campus Rabbi for Cincinnati Hillel, hosts The Jewish Drinking Show podcast (over 175 episodes and counting), and publishes a weekly newsletter and Torah portion sheet on drinking that covers the Tanakh, Rabbinic Literature, Jewish history, Jewish practice, and more. In our conversation we talk…
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Drunkenness in the Old Testament with Dr. Rebekah Welton (Podcast)
Read more: Drunkenness in the Old Testament with Dr. Rebekah Welton (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Rebekah Welton, who is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Exeter and the author of ‘He Is A Glutton and a Drunkard’: Deviant Consumption in the Hebrew Bible (Published by Brill). In our discussion we talk about broader conceptions in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible of feasting,…
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Trauma & The Hebrew Bible with Dr. Alexiana Fry (Podcast)
Read more: Trauma & The Hebrew Bible with Dr. Alexiana Fry (Podcast)CW: sexual assault, forced migration, intimate partner violence. Dr. Alexiana Fry is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and the author of Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible. In this episode, we talk about how she began working on this topic as well as several different texts that have or could be read…
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Teaching the Old Testament to Children with Dr. Kaz Hayashi and Shelley Henning (Podcast)
Read more: Teaching the Old Testament to Children with Dr. Kaz Hayashi and Shelley Henning (Podcast)In this episode we talk about why it’s important to teach the Old Testament to children with Dr. Kaz Hayashi, who is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN) and Shelley Henning, who is the Co-founder and CEO of GrowFamily, which provides family resources for parents and church leaders, the Children’s…
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Blindness in the Hebrew Bible with Dr. Eric Harvey (Podcast)
Read more: Blindness in the Hebrew Bible with Dr. Eric Harvey (Podcast)Alt txt: image of our guest, Dr. Eric Harvey, along with two of our co-hosts, Stephanie Kate Judd and Dr. Madison Pierce, along with the title of the episode: “Blindness in the Hebrew Bible with Dr. Eric Harvey.” In the second episode of our series on disability, we discuss blindness in the Hebrew Bible with…
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Our New Book: Ancient Readers and Their Scriptures
Read more: Our New Book: Ancient Readers and Their ScripturesI am thrilled to say that our new book is finally out, Ancient Readers and Their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity. The book was published by Brill just a few weeks ago and will be on display just in time for the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature beginning this weekend in…
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Where did Christian Baptism Come From?
Read more: Where did Christian Baptism Come From?Question of Origins What are the origins of Christian baptism? A quick perusal of the biblical texts might leave one perplexed as to the sudden appearance of baptism in the New Testament.1 Immediately and without explanation one is confronted with the appearance of John “the Baptist” and the practice of baptizing in water (Matt 3:1ff)….
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A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism—by Mark S. Gignilliat (A Review)
Read more: A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism—by Mark S. Gignilliat (A Review)On my trip to India over spring break—which you can read a little bit about here—I brought along a delightful little introduction to Old Testament Criticism by Mark S. Gignilliat, called, A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism: From Benedict Spinoza to Brevard Childs (check it out on Amazon). Gignilliat, who is Associate Professor of…
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My Book, Esther and Her Elusive God, is Out!
Read more: My Book, Esther and Her Elusive God, is Out!I am pleased to say that my book, Esther and Her Elusive God: How A Secular Story Functions As Scripture, is finally available for purchase. The book was endorsed by N. T. Wright (St Andrews) and Chris Miller (Cedarville), and Dr. Ronald W. Pierce (Biola) wrote the Foreword. The book can be purchased from the publisher’s website,…