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.
Publisher
Ari Barbalat
Category
history · religion & spirituality · society & culture
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, 6–8, 10–12, 14, 19, 31, and 36–37, Aster exposes how these passages deliver a sophisticated challenge to Assyrian imperial propaganda. He reveals that Isaiah strategically employs Assyrian propagandistic motifs while systematically dismantling their cl...
13 Oct 2026
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 this historical record? This examination compassionately investigates how Josephus portrayed Moses, David, Judas Maccabee, and Agrippa I, recognizing how he drew upon Roman exempla as his literary framework. In doing so, Josephus crafted these four Jewish...
12 Oct 2026
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 fundamentally altered the course of human civilization. The domains of archaeological investigation, religious observance, ethnic composition, hereditary inheritance, cultural expression, and linguistic systems within these societies remain fundamentally in...
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