A podcast about Near Eastern history, language and culture.

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Episode 62: Part II - Imperialism and Jewish Society
Episode 61: Part 1 - Imperialism and Jewish Society
Episode 60: Plant‐related Philistine ritual practices at biblical Gath
Episode 59: The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea
Episode 58: The Lost Roman Campaign in Arabia
Episode 57: The Consuming Fire
Episode 56: Dysentery in Judah
Episode 55: The Wolf King
Episode 54: The Origins of Ashkenazim
Episode 53: How The Bible Is Written
Episode 52: The Kharijites - Heroes & Villains
Episode 51: The Assyrian War Machine (Copy)
Episode 50: Revelation & Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
Episode 49: The Middle Maccabees
Episode 48: The Bar Kokhba Revolt
Episode 47: Revelation in Islam
Episode 46: Divorcing Lilith: From the Babylonian Incantation Bowls to the Cairo Genizah
Episode 45: The Samaritans
Episode 44: The Rise and Fall of Viticulture in The Late Antique Negev Highlands
Episode 43: Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism
Episode 42: Playaling
Episode 41: When the Gods Were Born
Episode 40: Jewish Languages From A to Z
Episode 39: Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World
Episode 38: Philistine Invasion Biology
Episode 37: Jewish Magic in Late Antiquity
Episode 36: Life and Death in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant
Episode 35: Palestinian Arabic & Israeli Hebrew In Contact
Episode 34: Yiddish: Strange but Familiar
Episode 33: The Veterans Theory

The Levantini Podcast features interviews with leading academics and experts of the Near East

Our podcast interviews focus on both ancient and contemporary topics related to Near Eastern history, languages, religions and cultures.

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