Bonus 18: Yochi Brandes' novel 'The Orchard'- Judaism and Christianity after the fall of the Temple

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dan Libenson of the Judaism Unbound podcast returns to the show. This time we discuss best-selling Israeli author Yochi Brandes' novel 'The Orchard'. Dan translated the book into English. The novel centres on Rabbi Akiva, the man who forged rabbinic Judaism after teh fall of the Temple. Along the way we encounter a host of other rabbis and Paul of Tarsus. We also ponder the difficulties of translation and working out what actually happened in history.

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0:00.0	Giday, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.2	In this bonus episode, I want to welcome back to the podcast, Daniel Liebenson.
0:25.7	Dan is a Harvard Law graduate and former law professor.
0:29.2	He is the founder and president at the Institute for the Next Jewish Future.
0:33.2	Dan is a prolific writer and lecturer, a passionate activist who's determined to stir things up.
0:39.1	He is the co-host of the Judaism Unbound podcast. While he's been doing all that, Dan found
0:45.0	time to translate, best-selling Israeli author Yoki Brander's latest novel into English.
0:50.9	In a previous episode with Dan, we discussed Yoki's earlier novel, The Secret
0:56.0	Book of Kings, about the earliest kings of Israel, Saul and David and Solomon. Yoki upended
1:02.6	the old biblical stories to show us the history that the losers might have written. Yoki's new
1:08.2	novel is The Orchard. This time, Yoki has evoked the turbulent era
1:12.3	after the Roman destruction of the temple and Jerusalem in the year 70. The Jews were a people
1:17.8	whose social structures, whose identity, whose great festivals, whose theology, were founded on the
1:23.4	sacred temple in the sacred city. The Romans crumbled that bedrock.
1:29.3	Yoki's novel tells us how the rabbinic sages reinvented Judaism,
1:33.4	while another path was taken by the Jesus clubs of Paul of Tarsus.
1:37.6	In the orchard, Yoki delivers her own unique take on the times.
1:41.4	Hi, Dan.
1:42.2	Hi, Gary. It's so great to be back on again. Okay. Now, Dan,
1:46.1	what is the significance of this period in history? What's going on? And also, what specific
1:52.0	period of history are we talking about? Why set a novel in this period? Yeah, so the period that
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