“And Also Some Women” EP #5 – All About Eve

In this week’s episode of And Also Some Women, hosts Junia Joplin and Anne Thériault take it back to the very beginning with the mother of all things: Eve. They are joined by Reuven Kimelman and River Needham to discuss how much we really know about the first woman to roam the Earth.

Reuven Kimelman is a professor of classical Judaica at Brandeis University and a rabbi of a congregation in Brookline, Massachusetts.

River Needham is a doctoral student at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

 

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Sources for this episode:

The Seduction of Eve and Feminist Readings of the Garden of Eden by Reuven Kimelman 

The Rhetoric of the Jewish Liturgy: A Historical and Literary Commentary on the Daily Prayer Book by Reuven Kimelman

 

Full interviews for this episode:

Reuven Kimelman Interview – And Also Some Women

River Needham Interview – And Also Some Women

 

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