Dialogues in Judaic Studies
By 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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Nathan MacDonald, *The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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John Martens and Kristine Henriksen Garroway, *Children and Methods: Listening To and Learning From Children in the Biblical World*. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
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Oct 15, 2026 |
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Shawn Zelig Aster, *Reflections of Empire in Isaiah 1-39: Responses to Assyrian Ideology*. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017.
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Oct 13, 2026 |
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Agnes Judith Goppinger, *Moribus Antiquis Res Stat Iudaea Virisque: Exempla in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Iudaicae*. Leiden: Brill, 2026
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Oct 13, 2026 |
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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.
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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Gerbern Oegema, *The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
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Oct 11, 2026 |
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Brad Kelle, *The Bible and Moral Injury: Reading Scripture Alongside War's Unseen Wounds*. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Nathaniel Deutsch, Tony Michels and Alma Rachel Heckman, *Radical Jewish Politics: A Global Perspective*. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2026.
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans., *Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel by Ida Maze*. Amherst, MA: White Goat Press (an imprint of the Yiddish Book Center), 2022.
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Sep 20, 2026 |
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Gavin McDowell, *The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity: “Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer," "Jubilees," and the "Cave of Treasures"*. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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Eric Barrios, *Foreign Soldiers in Judah’s Military: Biblical Attitudes in Light of Extra-Biblical Evidence*. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2026.
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Sep 11, 2026 |
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Julia O’Brien, *Prophets Beyond Activism: Rethinking the Prophetic Roots of Social Justice*. Westminster John Knox, 2024.
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Phillip Michael Lasater and Benedikt Hensel, *Fear, Fear of God, God Fearers: Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity*. Tubingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Assaf Likhovski, *Legal Theory in the Colonies: Hindu and Jewish Scholars under British Rule*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Yael Shemesh, *Elisha: The Holy Man of God*. Lenn Schramm, trans. Leiden: Brill, 2025.
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Sandra Jacobs, *The Body as Property: Physical Disfigurement in Biblical Law*. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Eshbal Ratzon, Asaf Gayer and Jonathan Ben-Dov [with the assistance of Einat Tamir and Anna Shirav], *Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of 4Q418a*. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Jonathan Darby, *Shaping Text through Song: The Influence of Singing upon Processes of Textual Interpretation and Variation in the Dead Sea Scrolls*. Leiden: Brill, 2026.
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Pancratius Beentjes, *“Wisdom Sings Her Own Praise” (Sir. 24:1): Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira [III]*. Louvain, Belgium: Peeters Publishing House, 2025
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Nathan French, *A Theocentric Interpretation of הדעת טוב ורע: The Knowledge of Good and Evil as the Knowledge for Administering Reward and Punishment*. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021.
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Mikhl Yashinsky, ed. and trans., *The Mother of Yiddish Theatre: Memoirs of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska*. London: Bloomsbury, 2025.
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Ishay Rosen-Zvi, *How to Read the Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic Literature*. Daniel Tabak, trans. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2026.
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Hindy Najman, *Scriptural Vitality: Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
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Jul 03, 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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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Lindsey Davidson, *Scribal Culture in Ben Sira*. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Emmylou Grosser, *Unparalleled Poetry: A Cognitive Approach to the Free-Rhythm Verse of the Hebrew Bible*. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Alex Jassen, *Violence, Power and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Jacqueline Vayntrub, *Body Language: Voice, Embodiment and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible*. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026.
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen and Sehoon Jang, eds., *The Function of the Reader in the Formation and the Reception of the Book of Isaiah*. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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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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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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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 |