Latest Near east Podcast Episodes
The Lost Roman Campaign in Arabia
The Levantini Podcast - October 24, 2023 20:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMichael Fradley is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and a landscape archaeologist. He was one of the co-authors of a recent study about how a remote sensing survey in southern Jordan identified at least three Roman military camps that seem to reveal a previously unknown mili...
The Consuming Fire
The Levantini Podcast - July 25, 2023 23:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLiane Feldman discusses her book The Consuming Fire, which presents a complete translation of the Priestly Source of the Bible, offering a distinctive account of the origins of the people of Israel and their relationship with God. By presenting the complete translation of the Priestly Source wi...
Dysentery in Judah
The Levantini Podcast - June 26, 2023 18:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDr. Piers Mitchell is an Honorary Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge and the lead author of a recent study that analyzed sediments from two latrines from the Kingdom of Judah. The study found that dysentery was widespread in t...
The Wolf King
The Levantini Podcast - April 20, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this episode of the podcast, Abigail Krasner Balbale discusses her book The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in Al Andalus. The Wolf King explores how political power was conceptualized, constructed, and wielded in twelfth-century al-Andalus, focusing on the reign of Muh...
The Origins of Ashkenazim
The Levantini Podcast - February 14, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDr. Shamam Waldman discusses a recent paper she co-authored with her colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that was published in the journal Cell. The study was an effort to sequence the DNA from the remains of Ashkenazi Jews in medieval Europe and focused on a DNA analysis that was d...
How The Bible Is Written
The Levantini Podcast - October 25, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsProfessor Gary Rendsburg comes back on the podcast to discuss his book How The Bible Is Written. The book examines the literary aspects of the Hebrew biblical text and highlights the artistry and skill of the biblical authors. How The Bible Is Written is available in a number of stores, includin...
The Kharijites - Heroes & Villains
The Levantini Podcast - July 26, 2022 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHannah-Lena Hagemann is based in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Hamburg University, where she leads a research group on rebellion in early Islam. She is the author of The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition which is the first comprehensive literary analysis of the Khariji...
The Assyrian War Machine
The Levantini Podcast - April 12, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsProfessor Yosef Garfinkel is a Professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Yigael Yadin Chair in Archaeology of Israel. In 2021 he was one of the authors of a study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology which examines how the Assyrian army laid siege to the to...
Revelation & Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
The Levantini Podcast - April 05, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsProfessor Benjamin Sommer is an American biblical scholar and Jewish theologian. He’s a Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Professor Sommer is the author of the book Revelation & Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scriptu...
The Middle Maccabees
The Levantini Podcast - February 22, 2022 22:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAndrea Berlin is the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology and a Professor of Archaeology and Religion at Boston University. Her research focuses on the archaeology and history of the Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman East, Ceramic Studies, Second-Temple Judaism, and the archaeology o...
The Middle Maccabees
The Levantini Podcast - February 22, 2022 22:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAndrea Berlin is the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology and a Professor of Archaeology and Religion at Boston University. Her research focuses on the archaeology and history of the Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman East, Ceramic Studies, Second-Temple Judaism, and the archaeology o...
The Bar Kokhba Revolt
The Levantini Podcast - December 14, 2021 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsProfessor Boaz Zissu is an archaeologist and a member of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. He has authored and collaborated on numerous studies of the Bar Kokhba Revolt including co-authoring the book The Bar Kokhba Revolt: The Archae...
Revelation in Islam
The Levantini Podcast - September 22, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsKhalil Andani is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Augustana College and holds a Ph.D. In Islamic Studies from Harvard University. Professor Andani’s dissertation “Revelation in Islam: Qur’anic, Sunni, and Shi‘i Ismaili Perspectives” won the 2020 Best PhD Dissertation of the Year Award from...
Divorcing Lilith: From the Babylonian Incantation Bowls to the Cairo Genizah
The Levantini Podcast - May 25, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsGideon Bohak is a Professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University. He is a specialist in Jewish magic, especially in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and in the study of the Cairo Genizah. Professor Bohak came back on the show to discuss a paper he co-authored ti...
The Samaritans
The Levantini Podcast - May 04, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMatthew Chalmers is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Northwestern University’s Department of Religious Studies. He is a scholar and theorist of religion, working with texts and traditions of the late antique eastern Mediterranean in Gr...
The Rise and Fall of Viticulture in The Late Antique Negev Highlands
The Levantini Podcast - February 17, 2021 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDaniel Fuks is a Newton International Fellow of the British Academy at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. As a PhD candidate in the Archaeobotany Lab at Bar-Ilan University, he was the leading author of the research study that examined the rise and ...
Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism
The Levantini Podcast - February 10, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSarit Kattan-Gribbetz is an Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University and the author of Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism, which can be purchased on Amazon. The book explores the rhythms of time that animated the rabbinic world of late antiquity, revealing how rabbis conceptual...
Playaling
The Levantini Podcast - January 25, 2021 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPlayaling is a language learning platform founded by Jordan Gerstler-Holton, a former Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) fellow and long-time student of Arabic. Playaling is composed of a dedicated team of language professionals making engaging real-world Arabic content available to teachers ...
When the Gods Were Born
The Levantini Podcast - January 24, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCarolina Lopez-Ruiz is a Professor at Ohio State University in the Classics Department and her research focuses on understanding Greek culture in its broader ancient Mediterranean context. She has authored a number of books on the Phoenician civilization and in this episode we discussed her book...
Jewish Languages From A to Z
The Levantini Podcast - December 16, 2020 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsProfessors Aaron D. Rubin and Lily Kahn came back on the show to discuss their new book Jewish Languages From A to Z. The book is a comprehensive survey of Jewish languages, covering more than 50 different languages and language varieties and sheds light on the rich variety of languages spoken a...
Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World
The Levantini Podcast - December 13, 2020 19:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMichael Philip Penn is a professor of religious studies at Stanford University and the author of Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World as well as the book When Christians First Met Muslims. Professor Penn’s book and research examine Syriac sources to better understand h...
Philistine Invasion Biology
The Levantini Podcast - November 10, 2020 17:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSue Frumin is a post-doctoral researcher at Bar Ilan University and archaeobotanist. Sue works in the archaebotany lab run by Professor Ehud Weiss at the university. She is one of the co-authors of a 2015 paper that examined the impact of the Philistine migration on biodiversity in the Southern ...
Jewish Magic in Late Antiquity
The Levantini Podcast - October 20, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsGideon Bohak is a Professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University. He is a specialist in Jewish magic, especially in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and in the study of the Cairo Genizah. In this episode of the podcast, we spoke about Jewish magical practices of...
Life and Death in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant
The Levantini Podcast - September 15, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsProfessor David Ilan has come back to discuss the Chalcolithic age in the Southern Levant (4500 - 3700 BC) and specifically theories concerning religious beliefs about death and reincarnation. Professor Ilan serves as the Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew...
Palestinian Arabic & Israeli Hebrew In Contact
The Levantini Podcast - August 26, 2020 22:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRoni-Henkin is an Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. We spoke about the contact between Palestinian Arabic and Israeli Hebrew and how the two languages have interacted with one another for over a century. One item we did not get around to discussing, but is still importan...
Yiddish: Strange but Familiar
The Levantini Podcast - August 18, 2020 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLily Kahn is a Professor of Hebrew and Jewish languages at University College London. Professor Kahn is also a scholar of the Yiddish language and published the book Colloquial Yiddish, which can be purchased on Amazon. In our talk, we examined the history of Yiddish, its rise, fall, and resurg...
The Veterans Theory
The Levantini Podcast - July 13, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsProfessor David Ilan serves as the Director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and the Director of the Tel Dan excavations. Our discussion focused on Professor Ilan’s new theory surrounding the emergence of Israelite settlements in the hi...
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed
The Levantini Podcast - June 17, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEric Cline is a Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology and the Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute. He's also the author of the book 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, which covers the Bronze Age collapse, its causes, and what we can lear...
Bilmasri
The Levantini Podcast - June 08, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this episode of the podcast, we spoke with Nesrin Amin, the founder, and host of the Bilmasri blog and podcast. Bilmasri is a blog & podcast dedicated to the Egyptian dialect, its sounds, structures, vocabulary, and the culture behind it. You can download episodes of the Podcast from Apple Po...
From Camel to Truck - The Bedouin in the Modern World
The Levantini Podcast - May 19, 2020 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this episode of the podcast, we spoke with Professor Dawn Chatty who is the former director of the Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and an internationally recognized expert on Bedouin culture and tribalism. She is the author of From Camel to ...
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