Episode 261: Canaan Unconquered - Rachel Havrelock

Judaism Unbound - A podcast by Institute for the Next Jewish Future

So there's the Torah. 5 books of Moses. But what happens right afterward? Rachel Havrelock, Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, joins Dan and Lex to talk about the book that comes right after the Torah -- Joshua. Full of violent conquest, it's not a book that's easy for contemporary readers. But what can we learn when we look at it closely?