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Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)
Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Sep 17, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In How the Bible Became Holy (Yale University Press, 2014), Michael L. Satlow, a professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University, explores how an ancient collection of obscure writing became, over the course of centuries, “holy.” We take for granted that texts have power, but that idea was not always so obvious to people.
Satlow traces the story of how the Bible became the foundational, authoritative text of Judaism and Christianity.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Satlow traces the story of how the Bible became the foundational, authoritative text of Judaism and Christianity.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Sep 17, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917” (Cambridge UP, 2008): Every Jew knows the story. The evil tsarist authorities ride into the Shtetl. They demand a levy of young men for the army. Mothers’ weep. Fathers’ sigh. The community mourns the loss of its young. It’s a good story, and some of it’s even true. by New Books in Jewish Studies