

S1E21: When did Jews live in this land? What did they call their land? When did Jewish people form their first kingdom? Where do the terms Jewish and Judaism come from?
►Origin of the Jewish people, according to scholarship ►When did Judaism become a religion? ►Judah & Israel - how were these kingdoms different? ►How did Jewish kingdoms fit within the geopolitics of the region?
🚩About our guest:
Dr. Pytlik is a professor in Anthropology and Judaic Studies, Director of Judaic Studies, and Director of the Cis Maisel Center for Judaic Studies at Oakland, University, in Rochester, MI.
To learn more about him, you can visit his academic homepage. Also, here is his dissertation on Imagining David, the Man and King, and also a paper on the Canaanite and Judean Cities of Lachish, Israel.
🚩History of the Jewish Diaspora: Listen to Dr. Howard Lupovitch tell the amazing history of the Jewish kingdom of Khazar: https://bit.ly/HbN-S3E42
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Adel Aali
Host, Unravelling the Middle East
Host, History Behind News Podcast
Unravelling the Middle East podcast is a production of the History Behind News program.
🚩Image attribution:
Map of the southern Levant in the 9th century BCE, with Judah in light red. FinnWikiNo derivative work: Richardprins (talk) derivative work: Richardprins (talk). On Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Blue and beige colors on either side of the map have been extended to fill the image panel.
🎶Music attributions:
1. Opening and closing music of the program:
Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
Music available on at https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/125654/
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This music has been cut in shorter pieces and its volume has been adjusted in different portions of our program.
2. Background music to guest introduction:
The Desert | The Grand Score
The Desert | The Grand Score by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.
3. Background music to promoting History Behind News episodes:
The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.