When the journalist-turned-banker-turned-historian Nick Bunker began exploring the ways in which Puritans turned to rabbinic commentary in their effort to understand the Hebrew Bible, he was reminded of his time as a student at Columbia University in the 1980s. Then, an Englishmen pursuing his studies on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, he first became familiar with—and fascinated by—the Jews he encountered and their religious traditions. His experience, perhaps, was something like that of English Protestant Nonconformists exiled in the Netherlands who, for the first time, came into contact with living Jews. Bunker discusses these topics and much else in conversation with Ari Lamm. (Audio, 62 minutes.)
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