Cast a Giant Shadow: Reading Samson in Modern Israel
Dr. Devora Steinmetz
Devora Steinmetz serves on the faculty of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School and the Mandel Leadership Institute. She is the founder of Beit Rabban, a Jewish day school profiled in Daniel Pekarsky’s Vision at Work: The Theory and Practice of Beit Rabban. She is the author of scholarly articles on Talmud, Midrash, and Bible as well as of two books, From Father to Son: Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis and Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law. She has served on the faculty of Drisha, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshivat Hadar, and Havruta: a Beit Midrash at Hebrew University.
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How do stories of the ancient past inform the political choices of the present? This podcast examines the story of Samson (Judges 13-16) through the writings of the Revisionist Zionist thinker Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky and the contemporary Israeli novelist David Grossman.