In a 1984 essay, Jon D. Levenson compared the Hebrew Bible’s depiction of idol worshippers with the New Testament’s descriptions of “scribes” and “Pharisees”—two groups whom later Christian readers took as a synecdoche for Jews. He revisits the article in a conversation with Jared Thomasson that then moves on to discuss anti-Semitism, the state of academic biblical studies, and much else. (Audio, 62 minutes.)
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