The Early Development of Jewish Universalism: From the Bible to the Rabbinic Period with Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Judaism & Other Faiths" This lecture will explore the origins and development of universalist thinking in biblical texts and in documents produced by Greek speaking Jews in the late Second Temple period. Understood as the invitation to all people to worship the same god without converting or assimilating, Jewish universalism solidified into an idea which became predominant in Jewish thinking during the Hellenistic era. This audio was originally recorded on 06/30/2021.