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December 6, 2022 59 mins

In Episode 8 our hosts talk with Dr. Elizabeth Shanks Alexander about whether women can keep track of their own periods, religious law as a boys’ club, and why ancient rabbis cared about witchery.  

Episode show notes: https://womenwhowentbefore.com/suffering-witches-to-live.

Women Who Went Before is written, produced, and edited by Emily Chesley and Rebekah Haigh.

The music is composed and produced by Moses Sun.

Sponsored by the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion, the Program in Judaic Studies, and the Stanley J. Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University

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