{"podcast":{"title":"The Podcast of Jewish Ideas","slug":"the-podcast-of-jewish-ideas-6220623","podcast_index_feed_id":6220623,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5779269/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-podcast-of-jewish-ideas--5779269","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ab8613dd16d992d8dc4be7c8744f10e7.jpg","author":"Torah in Motion","episode_count":93,"summary":"A space for exploring the great ideas at the heart of the Jewish tradition.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T20:18:31.805210+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-podcast-of-jewish-ideas-6220623"},"episode":{"title":"72. Piyyut & Midrash | Dr. Tzvi Novick","slug":"72-piyyut-midrash-dr-tzvi-novick","published_at":"2025-08-28T23:12:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-podcast-of-jewish-ideas-6220623/72-piyyut-midrash-dr-tzvi-novick","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-podcast-of-jewish-ideas-6220623","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/72-piyyut-midrash-dr-tzvi-novick--67547831","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/67547831/tzvi_novick_v1.mp3","summary":"J.J. and Dr. Tzvi Novick talk prayer, poetry, homily, and some very-old-fashioned exegesis. Follow us on Bluesky @jewishideaspod.bsky.social for updates and insights! Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice. We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Tzvi Novick is the Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. His first monograph, What is Good, and What God Demands: Normative Structures in Tannaitic Literature (2010), traces foundational structural elements in tannaitic law and ethics, while his second, Piyyuṭ and Midrash: Form, Genre, and History (2018), examines the relationship between early liturgical poetry and rabbinic exegesis. He is also the author of two introductory surveys, Introduction to the Scriptures of Israel: History and Theology (2018), and Judaism: A Guide for Christians (2025).","meta_description":"J.J. and Dr. Tzvi Novick talk prayer, poetry, homily, and some very-old-fashioned exegesis. Follow us on Bluesky @jewishideaspod.bsky.social for updates a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3502,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-podcast-of-jewish-ideas-6220623/episodes/72-piyyut-midrash-dr-tzvi-novick/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-podcast-of-jewish-ideas-6220623/72-piyyut-midrash-dr-tzvi-novick.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}