A Contemporary Jewish David and Bathsheba Story – Jeanne Blasberg

Living Our Beliefs: Exploring Faith & Religion in Daily Life

Episode 68.
Jeanne is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her most recent novel, Daughter of a Promise, was published recently. The third novel of a trilogy, it follows Eden, published in 2017 and The Nine, published in 2019. While not originally planned as a trilogy, the three novels weave stories of family privilege or struggle, love, desire, and social expectations especially of women. In today’s episode, Jeanne talks about the key issues in Daughter of a Promise a coming-of-age story set in contemporary America, and how it echoes the biblical story of David and Bathsheba. Jeanne also shares her personal faith path of conversion to Reform Judaism and how her engagement with Judaism informs her writing.

In addition to her writing, Jeanne helps lead the Boston Book Festival and GrubStreet, one of the country’s preeminent creative writing centers.
Highlights:
· Jeanne's personal faith path and conversion to Reform Judaism.

· Themes in "Daughter of a Promise", a coming-of-age story.

· Accidental development of the trilogy and connections between the three books.

· How "Daughter of a Promise" echoes the biblical story of David and Bathsheba.

· Societal progress and change.

Social Media links for Jeanne:
Website – www.jeanneblasberg.com
Substack – https://jeanneblasberg.substack.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/jeanneblasbergauthor/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/jeanneblasbergauthor/
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Transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851013/episodes/15120491

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1. A Contemporary Jewish David and Bathsheba Story – Jeanne Blasberg (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:00:04)

3. Jeanne's background & conversion (00:02:23)

4. Trilogy of novels (00:06:49)

5. Learning from history (00:14:50)

6. Daughter of a Promise (00:19:08)

7. Reader take-aways (00:38:09)

8. Affirmative Action (00:42:28)