Marques Hollie: Judaism Unbound Episode 326 - Whose Canon is it Anyway?
Marques Hollie is a Philadelphia-based theatre artist, ritual leader, operatically-trained vocalist, and -- most importantly for this episode -- an ordained Maggid! What's a Maggid, you ask? That's a great question. It's SO great that we devoted much of this episode to it! Listen in to learn what a Maggid has been in the past, what it is today, and what it could become in the future.
[1] Marques Hollie’s 3-week UnYeshiva mini-course, entitled (just like this episode) Whose Canon is it Anyway?, is going to be awesome! Register for it by clicking the button below, and learn more about it by heading www.JudaismUnbound.com/whosecanon.
[2] Learn more about Marques Hollie by heading to MarquesHollie.com, and check out their storytelling — featured in ShavuotLIVE 2021 — by clicking here.
[3] Get some more information about the Maggid-training program that Hollie completed via this link.
[4] Read some reflections from Marques Hollie, regarding Go Down, Moshe, a project that explores the Passover story in light of American slavery, here.
[5] Hollie references a work of Jewish stories, entitled The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar. You can purchase it here, and you can learn more about Scliar by clicking here.
[6] A past episode of Judaism Unbound features Noam Sienna, and explores his book A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969, which Hollie referenced. You can purchase A Rainbow Thread via this link.
[7] For the “Alef Bet Pageant” story that Hollie alludes to, see this passage from the Zohar, a foundational text of Kabbalah, or find it in the book Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another, by Peninnah Schram.
[8] Toward the end of the episode, Hollie and Lex each mention Kohenet as another role — like Maggid — with a rich history, that is being revived in the 21st century. For past episodes of Judaism Unbound exploring the role of Kohenet in greater depth, see Episode 240: Hebrew Priestesses - Jill Hammer, Taya Shere and/or Episode 246: Priestessing Priestesses - Keshira HaLev Fife.