Episode 210: Marriage Edition Part 2 | A(nother) Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Bird
Podcast:At Last She Said It Published On: Tue Feb 04 2025 Description: In Part 2 of the conversation about biblical marriage, Susan and Cynthia ask Dr. Jennifer Bird about virginity, purity culture, and—of course!—biblical polygamy. Joseph Smith drew on polygamy in the Hebrew Bible to justify instituting the practice in early Mormonism, teaching that sometimes God not only condoned but actually mandated it. So what does a feminist biblical scholar say about it?