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The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind

Welcome to The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind, a podcast that tells the story of the prophets, philosophers, and poets who created the West. In this podcast, Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Rocklin guides listeners through more than 3,000 years of Western history, offering a coherent, civilizational story of how the West came to be—along with a deepened understanding of the challenges it now faces. While many of the texts discussed will be familiar to students of the humanities, Rabbi Rocklin offers a new framework for understanding them—a framework in which the teachings of the Jewish religious tradition play a central role. For, as Rabbi Rocklin explains, Western civilization can only be understood as the product of a transformative and ongoing collision between the great traditions of Jerusalem and Athens—between the religious spirit of the Jews and the philosophical spirit of the Greeks.

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info_outline Medieval Literature II: Maimonides 05/29/2025
info_outline Medieval Literature I: Islamic Thinkers 05/27/2025
info_outline Jews in the Middle Ages: Intellectual Life, Religion, and Persecution 05/22/2025
info_outline The Classical Christian: Augustine's Life and Legacy 05/20/2025
info_outline Medieval Church History: Art, Religion, and Power 05/15/2025
info_outline Death and Dissent: Disasters, Revolts and Wars of the 14th Century 05/13/2025
info_outline A Restless Spirit: Medieval Vitality and Crusades 05/08/2025
info_outline Reason and Revelation: Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages 05/06/2025
info_outline Medieval Religion: The Rise of Christendom 05/01/2025
info_outline Church and State: Politics and Religion in the Middle Ages 04/29/2025
info_outline The Early Middle Ages: Church and Society 04/24/2025
info_outline The Birth of a New West: An Introduction to the Middle Ages 04/22/2025
info_outline The Golden Age of Spain: Jewish Culture under Islamic Rule 04/10/2025
info_outline Islam 101: A Religious and Historical Overview 04/08/2025
info_outline The Talmud: Jewish Law and Life 04/03/2025
info_outline Imperial Collapse: Rome's Fall in the West and Longevity in the East 04/01/2025
info_outline Commodus to Constantine: The Peak and Decline of the Roman Empire 03/27/2025
info_outline An Animating Spirit: Midrash and the Roman-Jewish Clash 03/26/2025
info_outline Masters of Satire: Tacitus and Juvenal 03/20/2025
info_outline Josephus II: The Legacy of Masada 03/19/2025
info_outline Josephus I: The Jewish Revolt 03/13/2025
info_outline Colossal Split: The Separation of Judaism and Christianity 03/11/2025
info_outline The Dawn of a New Era: Christianity and the New Testament 03/06/2025
info_outline Plutarch: Honor, Wisdom, and Duty 03/04/2025
info_outline From Trajan to Marcus Aurelius: Rome at its Peak 02/27/2025
info_outline From Tiberius to Domitian: First-Century Rome in Turmoil 02/25/2025
info_outline Roman Poetry: Horace, Ovid, and Seneca 02/20/2025
info_outline Rome Meets the Jews: The First Challenge to Paganism 02/18/2025
info_outline The Aeneid II: Rome will Rise 02/13/2025
 
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