'Canon'--the body of work designated as genuine, sanctioned, important or official--is a concept that intersects fandoms and religions. In this episode, we discuss all things canon including: Star Trek's nebulous official and unofficial approaches to a canon; the historical formation the Jewish canon; challenges to the Western literary canon and the relationship between those critiques and problematic parts of Star Trek; and the in-universe approach that Trek characters have to religious canons. Reb Alert guests Lex Rofeberg of the podcast Judaism Unbound, talking about the limits and challenges of a canon, new approaches to a Jewish canon, and the relationship between canons and power.
HSHW: ENT Awakening; DSC New Eden
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Where We‘ve Gone Before
Oral Traditions (Or, The One with Picard‘s Flute)
Space Nazis (Or, Misadventures on the Paramount Backlot)
Bonus: Live from the Jewish Museum
For You Were Strangers
Part II - Captain David Gold: Don't Call it a Midrash
Part I - Captain David Gold: Don't Call it a Midrash
Time Helix
Conversion (no, not matter/anti-matter conversion)
Benny Russell is Dreaming of Us
After the Burn
Time, Space and Courage
Literally Saving the Whales
Four Ensigns Enter the Pardes
The Clerk of Gallitep
Seventy Facets: Jews, Gender, Jadzia and J'naii
Bonus: Day of Atonement / Day of Honor
The Goatee Inclination
Harrison and Libenson at Tanagra
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It is Free
The Hello Heaven Podcast
The Nightingale of Iran
For Heaven’s Sake
In These Times with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch
Unpacking Israeli History
Abundant Ever After with Cathy Heller