Audio editions of long-form essays by Dan Jacobs on Jewish history, antisemitism, politics, and the ideas that shape identity.
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Audio editions of long-form essays by Dan Jacobs on Jewish history, antisemitism, politics, and the ideas that shape identity.
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February 25, 2026
Parting Ways (5/5): Empire, enforcement, and the split that never ended
Part 5 follows the split between rabbinic Judaism and Christianity into the fourth and fifth centuries, when imperial power entered the story and the cost of overlap began to rise. We start in Antioch, where John Chrysostom’s sermons reveal Christians still attending Jewish festivals and synagogues, and ask what that persistence tells us about how slow separation really was. From there we move to Nicaea and the struggle over sacred time, as Easter and Sabbath become identity markers, then to the ratchet effect: preaching becomes canon, canon becomes law. The Theodosian Code turns boundary-making into administration. The Callinicum synagogue burning shows how bishops could bend imperial policy. Augustine offers a theology of “toleration” that keeps Jews alive but subordinated, and Jerome’s reliance on Jewish Hebrew learning exposes a dependence Christianity could never fully escape. The episode ends in the Jewish east, where rabbinic authority becomes more portable and resilient, and with the central claim of the series: the divorce papers were written in calendars and law, but the two communities never stopped sharing the same book.
February 18, 2026
Parting Ways (4/5): Who owns Israel’s library? The Bible through rabbinic and Christian Greek reading worlds
By the second and third centuries, the question is no longer mainly how gentiles enter Israel’s story. It is who gets to tell the story at all. This episode follows the fight over Israel’s scriptures as a shared library that becomes contested property: through translation, naming, canon-building, and the delegitimising of Jewish continuity.
February 11, 2026
Parting Ways (3/5): When the centre of gravity changed, and both sides drew borders
Part 3 traces the slow split between the Jesus movement and Jewish communal life. As gentiles became the majority, Torah shifted from lived practice to quoted text, and overlap grew harder to sustain through calendars, meals, taxes, and prayer.
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