Yonatan Adler
@yonatan.bsky.social
Archaeology and Early Judaism
Associate Professor
@arieluniversity
Author of:
The Origins of Judaism (Yale 2022)
Between Yahwism and Judaism (Cambridge 2025)
Associate Professor
@arieluniversity
Author of:
The Origins of Judaism (Yale 2022)
Between Yahwism and Judaism (Cambridge 2025)
My talk (in English) starts at 16:00, following a very kind introduction by Prof. Reinhard Kratz (in German):
youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9d...
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Thema „Becoming “Israel”: The Jewish Reception of a Biblical Identity“
YouTube video by Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My talk (in English) starts at 16:00, following a very kind introduction by Prof. Reinhard Kratz (in German):
youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9d...
youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9d...
Needless to say, I very much look forward to hearing what he has to say.
To sign up for the (free!) webinar:
www.lockdownuniversity.org/lectures/281...
2/2
To sign up for the (free!) webinar:
www.lockdownuniversity.org/lectures/281...
2/2
When Did Judaism Begin? - Lockdown University
This talk introduces the groundbreaking work of Yonatan Adler in the context of arguing that Judaism as a set of daily practices familiar to us only came into being during the Hasmonaean dynasty in th...
www.lockdownuniversity.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Needless to say, I very much look forward to hearing what he has to say.
To sign up for the (free!) webinar:
www.lockdownuniversity.org/lectures/281...
2/2
To sign up for the (free!) webinar:
www.lockdownuniversity.org/lectures/281...
2/2
Shabbat shalom!
(Trying to post weekly on the current Parashah. Let's see how long I can keep this up...)
8/8
(Trying to post weekly on the current Parashah. Let's see how long I can keep this up...)
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October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Shabbat shalom!
(Trying to post weekly on the current Parashah. Let's see how long I can keep this up...)
8/8
(Trying to post weekly on the current Parashah. Let's see how long I can keep this up...)
8/8
It would appear that this letter was meant to answer the acute quandary plaguing first-century communities of Gentile Jesus-followers as to whether they too should be observing the various dietary restrictions commonly adhered to by Jews.
7/8
7/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It would appear that this letter was meant to answer the acute quandary plaguing first-century communities of Gentile Jesus-followers as to whether they too should be observing the various dietary restrictions commonly adhered to by Jews.
7/8
7/8
...Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, [that is,] its blood [אך בשר בנפשו דמו לא תאכלו].”
This instruction to Noah’s family, as the progenitors of all humanity, was apparently taken as applicable not only to Jews but to Gentiles as well.
6/8
This instruction to Noah’s family, as the progenitors of all humanity, was apparently taken as applicable not only to Jews but to Gentiles as well.
6/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
...Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, [that is,] its blood [אך בשר בנפשו דמו לא תאכלו].”
This instruction to Noah’s family, as the progenitors of all humanity, was apparently taken as applicable not only to Jews but to Gentiles as well.
6/8
This instruction to Noah’s family, as the progenitors of all humanity, was apparently taken as applicable not only to Jews but to Gentiles as well.
6/8
The source for the instruction in Acts seems to be God’s pronouncement in Gen 9:3–4 addressed to Noah and his sons: “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything...
5/8
5/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The source for the instruction in Acts seems to be God’s pronouncement in Gen 9:3–4 addressed to Noah and his sons: “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything...
5/8
5/8
Thus Philo (Spec. Laws 4:122), who condemned the decadent people who: “devise novel kinds of pleasure and prepare meat unfit for the altar by strangling and throttling the animals, and entomb in the carcass the blood which is the essence of the soul and should be allowed to run freely away.”
4/8
4/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thus Philo (Spec. Laws 4:122), who condemned the decadent people who: “devise novel kinds of pleasure and prepare meat unfit for the altar by strangling and throttling the animals, and entomb in the carcass the blood which is the essence of the soul and should be allowed to run freely away.”
4/8
4/8
...and from blood and from what is strangled [πνικτῶν] and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.”
The meat of a strangled animal was likely regarded as infused with prohibited blood, as strangling kills the animal without shedding any blood.
3/8
The meat of a strangled animal was likely regarded as infused with prohibited blood, as strangling kills the animal without shedding any blood.
3/8
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
...and from blood and from what is strangled [πνικτῶν] and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.”
The meat of a strangled animal was likely regarded as infused with prohibited blood, as strangling kills the animal without shedding any blood.
3/8
The meat of a strangled animal was likely regarded as infused with prohibited blood, as strangling kills the animal without shedding any blood.
3/8