This is the Bayhma podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm as co-host Brent Billings.

Today we are joined by someone who probably needs no

introduction on this podcast but special guest Dr Sandra Richter, the

Gundry chair of biblical studies at Westmont College, a graduate of Harvard University, and of course the author of The Epic of Eden.

I could go on and on and on, but her new study in that series covers Deborah and is out now.

Dr Richter, welcome to the show.

It is so wonderful to be here.

Thank you for the invitation and thanks for the part about not needing an introduction either.

Yeah, our listeners are very familiar with your work from pretty much the beginning of our podcast.

So.

Oh, wow.

Brent pointed out that when we got started, we had recommended a handful of Jewish rabbis and you were like the first

and only for a while non-Jewish rabbi we had recommended.

Thank you.

Oh gosh, I am so honored.

I just got to speak at a local synagogue about a month or so ago.

It was such an honor. invited me in to speak on environmental

theology. Oh sure. I've I have never stood on the platform of a synagogue before so how much fun that was. Yeah, absolutely. That is beautiful and perfect. Yeah. Well if you want to introduce yourself in any way expand on what I said add add to what I said, share your own details.

Feel free to introduce yourself.

Well, thank you.

As you said, I'm the Gundu Chair at Westmont College, which means I am now living in sunny Santa Barbara, California.

And Marty and I were joking before we got on camera here that Santa Barbara basically is Israel.

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