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Sep 14, 2026
Ari BarbalatHOST
I am your host, Ari Bar-Galat.
Ari BarbalatHOST
Today it's my honor to engage in a conversation with Gavin McDowell regarding his newly published book, The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity: Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer, Jubilees, and the Cave of Treasures, published in Berlin by De Gruyter 2025.
Ari BarbalatHOST
This monograph delves into the rewritten Bible genre, which narrates the history of ancient Israel independently from biblical text.
Ari BarbalatHOST
The findings suggest that the author's portrayal of the ancient prophets and patriarchs was influenced more by regional factors than religious ones.
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Ari BarbalatHOST
Can you explain the image on your book's title page?
Gavin McDowellGUEST
Yes.
Gavin McDowellGUEST
Okay, that image is a result of compromise between me and the good publishers at De Gruyter.
Gavin McDowellGUEST
It comes from a manuscript called the North French Miscellany, which like its title is a miscellany.
Adrian MatosHOST
It's a story about austerity before austerity had a name, about expertise without resourcing.
Adrian MatosHOST
Our discussion is around her latest monography, Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest, published by De Gruyter Brill in 2025 in open access.
Adrian MatosHOST
Alexandra Gitz is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe.
Adrian MatosHOST
Her research interests include women's labor history and the history and sociology of social policy.
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Alexandra GhiţGUEST
Our shared hometown has a tendency to publicize, you know, how the poorest of the city have been made out to have been set to work and all sorts of municipal work, even though many of these people are quite sick and so on.
Alexandra GhiţGUEST
So I think this tendency towards austerity, and I say a little bit more about this in the book's epilogue, is a through line of Romania's modern history in the 20th century and is, I believe, something that this long submerged path dependency enables political decisions that consistently favor spending cuts with very little questioning from multiple social and political actors.
Adrian MatosHOST
Dear listeners, you heard a fragment from Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest, published by De Gruyter Brill in 2025 in open access.
Adrian MatosHOST
Alexandra, we would like to thank you for your presence in our podcast.
Greg SheaGUEST
A very good writer, very accomplished in terms of thinking about books and, well, life, I would say, but book.
Greg SheaGUEST
Um, and he said, "You should, you should go talk to Jaya." And so we did, and she works for De Gruyter.
Greg SheaGUEST
Uh, and this is, I think, for something you really care about, there were two pieces of advice that we got.
Greg SheaGUEST
One was when we talked at, on the 20th anniversary about possibly doing a documentary, 'cause we have all this stuff on film.
Alex CainGUEST
Uh, so I'm currently finishing a book on Hannah Arendt.
Alex CainGUEST
It's called The Genius of Friendship: The Experiential Basis of Thinking in the Work of Hannah Arendt, and that's contracted, uh, to De Gruyter Press.
Alex CainGUEST
So I'm finishing that.
Alex CainGUEST
I'm also working on this Nolan and Arendt stuff, and that's sort of in the relatively early stages, and I'm working on a paper do- with that.