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]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) James Hardy https://storage.buzzsprout.com/rn0wbp1imsfdl74ko3k9z0ml5ent?.jpg Barefoot Benedictions https://www.buzzsprout.com/2649035 James Hardy "Who Was Jesus, Really?" - Dr. Amy-Jill Levine "Who Was Jesus, Really?" - Dr. Amy-Jill Levine James interviews his favorite Biblical scholar - Dr. Amy-Jill Levine. 

Dr. Levine is the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, in Hartford, Connecticut, and  professor emerita at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has written and edited widely-read works including The Misunderstood Jew, The Bible With and Without Jesus and The Jewish Annotated New Testament. In 2019, she became the first Jewish scholar to teach the New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. 

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]]> James interviews his favorite Biblical scholar - Dr. Amy-Jill Levine. 

Dr. Levine is the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, in Hartford, Connecticut, and  professor emerita at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has written and edited widely-read works including The Misunderstood Jew, The Bible With and Without Jesus and The Jewish Annotated New Testament. In 2019, she became the first Jewish scholar to teach the New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. 

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]]> James Hardy Buzzsprout-19819908 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0400 3271 1 4 full false "What is God?" - Fr. Norm Douglas "What is God?" - Fr. Norm Douglas We continue our discussion about the Divine with Catholic priest, and local Akron legend, Fr. Norm Douglas of St. Vincent de Paul Akron. 

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]]> We continue our discussion about the Divine with Catholic priest, and local Akron legend, Fr. Norm Douglas of St. Vincent de Paul Akron. 

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]]> James Hardy Buzzsprout-19819715 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:00:00 -0400 1930 1 3 full false "What is God?" - Dr. Pravina Rodrigues "What is God?" - Dr. Pravina Rodrigues Hindu-Christian Comparative Theologian, Dr. Pravina Rodrigues, continues the conversation on who (or what) is God?

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]]> Hindu-Christian Comparative Theologian, Dr. Pravina Rodrigues, continues the conversation on who (or what) is God?

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]]> James Hardy Buzzsprout-19759366 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:00:00 -0400 3115 1 2 full false "What is God?" - Rabbi Joshua Brown "What is God?" - Rabbi Joshua Brown Rabbi Joshua Brown, of Temple Israel Akron, shares his insight into our first big question - who (or what) is God?

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]]> Rabbi Joshua Brown, of Temple Israel Akron, shares his insight into our first big question - who (or what) is God?

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