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Audio editions of long-form essays by Dan Jacobs on Jewish history, antisemitism, politics, and the ideas that shape identity.

Episodes

  1. 2D AGO

    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.

    19 min

  2. FEB 11

    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.

    14 min

  3. FEB 3

    Parting Ways (2/5): A Jewish Jesus movement, and the fight over Torah law

    Part 2 follows the Jesus movement before it became a separate religion. In the first decades after Jesus’s death, the argument was still internal: how to read Torah in a messianic moment, what Gentile followers should do about circumcision and food laws, and whether Jews and Gentiles could share a table without dissolving Jewish boundaries. We move through Paul’s letters, Acts 15, and the everyday mechanics of mixed communities under Rome, and you can already see the split forming long before anyone calls it “Christianity.”

    18 min

  4. JAN 30

    Parting Ways (1/5): From Temple to text, law, and argument

    Religious splits are rarely neat. Part 1 begins in the late Second Temple world, before the catastrophe, with Hillel and the Pharisaic culture of argument. It then follows the shock of 70 CE and the long aftermath: how Jewish life survived when sacrifice and priestly authority could no longer function as the public centre. Along the way: messianic expectation in the air around Jesus, Josephus on certainty under pressure, the rabbinic survival story of Yavneh, and a set of classic texts that show what “portable Judaism” meant in practice.

    17 min
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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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  • Creator
    Dan Jacobs
  • Years Active
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  • Episodes
    4
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