Wine in the Book of Judith


Following-up on the previous episode of Drinking on Hanukah in which the story of Judith arises in the Shulhan Arukh, this episode features Professor Caryn Tamber-Rosenau in discussing wine in the apocryphal book of Judith. Prof. Tamber-Rosenau has written extensively on the book of Judith in her book Women in Drag: Gender and Performance in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature.

The discussion is available below in both podcast form

and video:

Not interested in watching the entire video? Check out this excerpt wherein we discuss the connection between the Book of Judith with medieval Judith traditions:

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