Episode 22 Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism: The Tales of Amalek and Jethro
Why is the attack of Amalek, Israel’s greatest enemy, immediately followed by the arrival of Moses’s father, one of the most philo-Semitic figures in the history of Israel?
Text: Exodus 17-18
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