Looking Back at Lot’s Wife

Rebecca Goldstein

1992

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It was one of the stories from Genesis that most frightened me as a child: the story of Lot’s wife.

She was told not to look, and she looked; and her punishment came swift and horrible. Frozen in the moment of her transgression, exposed to the eyes of all in her act of rebellion, she was transformed into a spectacle of salt, reduced to an element…

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Rebecca Goldstein

b. 1950

A novelist and philosopher, Rebecca Goldstein grew up in White Plains, New York, attended Barnard College, received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University, and has taught philosophy and creative writing at Trinity College and Harvard University. Her writing has achieved both critical and popular acclaim, and she is the recipient of a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship and the 2006 Koret Book Award in Jewish Thought.

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