Bonus 17: A Conversation with Dan Libenson of Judaism Unbound

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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My special guest is Dan Libenson of the Judaism Unbound podcast. We talk about the Bible, the history of the Jewish religion, the difficulties of translation, how Jews and Christians think about God, and many other matters. All good fun!

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.
0:48.8	In today's bonus episode, I'm in conversation with special guest, Dan Liebenson, of Judaism Unbound.
0:51.3	Well, hi, Dan. Thanks for coming on.
0:53.9	Hey, Gary. It's great to be on again. Great to be with you.
0:56.3	And how is sunny Chicago these days?
1:03.8	It's not bad. I've been told that in about 20 years or so, when global warming completely kicks in,
1:07.3	Chicago is going to be the new Bay Area, the new San Francisco.
1:10.4	So I'm looking forward to that. I mean, it's inevitable. Yeah, yeah, it's inevitable.
1:12.9	But actually, before I moved to Chicago, I lived in Minnesota, which is actually even colder.
1:18.2	So I think I'm one of the few people that moved to Chicago for the weather.
1:24.5	Anyway, you are one of the founders of the Judaism Unbound site and podcast.
1:30.3	Can you tell us what's that about?
1:32.3	And I have some questions about that for you.
1:34.3	Well, so what Judaism Unbound is about, I would say, is we're trying to sort of run down
1:38.3	this big idea or this big question, which is if the future of Judaism is going to
1:43.3	look profoundly different from the past of Judaism,
1:46.1	what would the process of getting from here to there look like? And what would be some of the
1:50.0	core ideas, both that the new Judaism might be built around and or what might be some of the
1:57.3	key ideas that are about the process of getting from here to there.
2:01.9	And one of the things that we do in our podcast is that we interview a lot of people that are
2:05.7	sort of thinking along the edges of these questions. I mean, a lot of people aren't exactly
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