Jewish History Nerds

Love the show! Love the topics!! And love you both !!!

I appreciate this podcast and the attempts to shed light of lesser-known aspects of Jewish history. Almost all episodes have led me to doing more research about the topics discussed. I’m afraid the hosts just don’t ever get too far into their topic for the day. They travel down many paths and sometimes forget to come back to the main road. There are many asides, jokes, and flippant remarks that take away from the topics. I like the conversational style, but there might be a bit too much, “I don’t know the answer, so I’m just going to speculate.”

As a Jewish professional, I can say that this podcast does some wonderful dives (not always deep which is fine) into some quirky and interesting parts of Jewish history. It’s thoroughly enjoyable and quite informative. The token one star review seems to be from some orthodox person who doesn’t believe anything that isn’t from her rebbe. And the other person has their panties in a twist over the characterization of Josephus… Shrug. I love this podcast and look forward to all of it, especially the episodes featuring women who’ve been overlooked.

I am deeply interested in the Jewish Bible as our religious parents. I was a Southern Baptist as a child. We read the New Testament deeply. In college I became a regular churchgoing Episcopalian. Later I formally studied my faith through a introductory course to theology sponsored through Sewanee: The University of the South. Podcasts have helped me get into Jewish theological thought and culture because Christianity is a Jewish “child”. I just listened to the St Paul episode. Very thorough. Well done. Yes, Yael, yes, personal faith—not the law—in Jesus as the human manifestation of God , the Messiah, died on the cross and rose from the dead. Paul taught this consistently in his travels The requirements are to Love the God who came out of love and pity to fulfill the promises of I AM to be with us and to Love our neighbors is the sum of the law. “Upon these two hang all the law and the prophets. I have wrestled with the violence of the Torah against YWHWY’s faithful love. HUMANS. (head shaking here). A small percent of Christians pursue the adult study of their religion. Your podcast is a very fascinating , useful and delightful piece of my education