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.

 

Listen here

Read the transcript

 

Are you talking about this episode in a group? Here are some discussion questions you may find helpful:

 

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

 

To get more episodes of And Also Some Women, subscribe to our podcast on your favourite podcast platform:

Apple Podcasts                   

 

 

Spotify

 

 

Stitcher

 

 

Google Podcasts

 

 

Pocket Casts