Horror and Holiness: Recent Episodes

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Taking a look at the Akeidah (The Binding of Isaac) as a horror story

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Tying everything together with a brief episode that looks into the horror behind the very idea of holiness.

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Rabbi Akiva as the Final Girl in the Four Sages who entered Paradise

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Hagar, survival horror and domestic abuse

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Sanctifying cosmic horror, Ezekiel's vision, surreal horror and the sublime

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Cosmic horror and Nadab and Abinu, sons of Aaron, consumed by fire.

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The plague of darkness, psychological horror, and the fear of God

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For Shavuot, I examine Jewish sacred texts through the horror genre lens. Trying to understand the role of horror in the encounter between the human and the divine. What type of horror is it? Can we sanctify that horror? If so, how?

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Rabbi Akiva as the Final Girl in the Four Sages who entered Paradise

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Hagar, survival horror and domestic abuse

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For Shavuot, I examine Jewish sacred texts through the horror genre lens. Trying to understand the role of horror in the encounter between the human and the divine. What type of horror is it? Can we sanctify that horror? If so, how?