Rethinking Eve: New Insights into the Genesis Story
“Eve is the protagonist. She’s the one who reasons; she weighs options; she acts, and she moves history forward. It’s a deliberate, reasoned choice.” An interview with Shawna Dolansky.
The Manichaean Story of Adam and Eve
All religions find ways to explain evil. The Manichaeans’ story led to an unusual and unique sexual ethic, but this important story had an enormous and lingering impact in world thought. An interview with Dr. Paul Dilley
Seth: The Peacekeeper Savior for All Abrahamic Faith Traditions
If the religious leaders of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were to acknowledge together their mutual mission, as “Seth’s seed”, to work toward the gradual perfection of the world, they would identify their enemy as revenge, fear, hatred, and arrogance.
A Jew and a Christian Discover Commonality
This blew me away. This was a reminder, one of the things both as a Jew and somebody who works to end discriminatory thought and action, I thought this was a game-changer. An interview with Dr. Jennifer Stollman
Who Is the Bible’s Seth and Why Is He Important?
Although Seth stories are told in a variety of versions in these religions, Seth is always good and often heroic. And in a number of these stories, his role as Savior takes on a divine status.
The Mother, Eve, and Norea Among the Christ People
Unlike in later and present Christianity, Eve was often known especially among both the Christ People and the people of Israel as the mother of humanity, and was often in this dimension a powerful salvific figure for all time. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
What 1 Timothy Says about Women
"[The text] prohibited women from teaching only in that time because it was important that they first learn and only then begin to teach."
Norea: Key Dimension of God’s Fullness and/or Eve’s First Daughter
Norea is a powerful female character in both texts, which complement what we know about her but do not give a completely matching picture. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Dr. Shirley Paulson) Includes transcript!