New Books in Biblical Studies

About New Books in Biblical Studies

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Publisher

Marshall Poe

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2008

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

32 of 536 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel - Bereshit Volume 1: The Beginning with Jordan B Gorfinkel (Koren Publishers, 2026)

   Rabbi Marc Katz interviews Jordan B. Gorfinkel about reimagining Genesis through a graphic novel, revealing new layers of meaning in ancient biblical stories.

2. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Kennicott Bible: A Masterpiece of Jewish Book Art with Katrin Kogman-Appel (Bodleian Library, 2023)

   Host interviews Professor Katrin Kogman-Appel about the Kennicott Bible, exploring its unique Jewish book art and historical significance.

3. 

   10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Read This Over Shabbos: Reading Jewish History in the Parash with David Bashevkin (Maggid, 2026)

   Rabbi Marc Katz interviews Rabbi David Bashevkin about his book, exploring how the weekly Torah portion illuminates modern Jewish history and identity.

Inside a recent episode

The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel - Bereshit Volume 1: The Beginning with Jordan B Gorfinkel (Koren Publishers, 2026)

Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But here we're trying to do something where we are being, again, as authoritative and scholarly as possible. So what we're doing is we're not showing you what things look like just to entertain you or to show you what things may look like. We're showing you what things may actually have looked like. And that's the important difference here. And especially on a podcast for academics, I think you can appreciate this. We are looking at the historical record. And we're understanding as much as archaeology and geology and geography and all the other disciplines, sociology, I could keep going on, all the other disciplines can show us so that we can create a visual reference style guide that shows the parameters of what the pre-bronze age would have looked like, which is the period more or less from in Brashit, volume one, which is the book that we're to talk about, So after the world is created, that's pretty much the period that we're in. […]

Who has been a guest on New Books in Biblical Studies

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• Jordan B Gorfinkel
• Katrin Kogman-Appel
• David Bashevkin
• Matthew Montgomery
• Jacqueline Vayntrub

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