The First Love
Presented by Meir Shalev.
Did Adam love Eve? And Eve 鈥� did she love Adam? Did Noah鈥檚 wife love him and he loved her? The first love in the Bible was mentioned long after their time, and it is not a couple鈥檚 love, but the love of a father to his son. In this lecture, which is based on a chapter in his new book Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible鈥檚 Intriguing Firsts, Meir Shalev discusses this love, as well as the love life of Rebecca and Isaac, Rachel and Jacob, and the role of love in marriage according to the Bible.
Meir Shalev was born in 1948 in Nahalal, Israel鈥檚 first Moshav, and is one of Israel鈥檚 most celebrated novelists. He studied psychology at the Hebrew University, worked for the Israeli Television for 15 years and published his first novel at the age of 40. Since then he has published 6 novels, 12 children鈥檚 books and 4 collections of essays. He is also a columnist with the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. His books have been translated into over 20 languages and have been bestsellers in Israel, Holland and Germany. He is the recipient of many prizes, among them the Juliet Club Prize (Italy), the Prime Minister's Prize (Israel), the Chiavari Prize (Italy), the Entomological Prize (Israel), the Wizo Prize (France, Israel and Italy). His last novel, A Pigeon and a Boy, received the Brenner Prize in Israel (2006) and the Jewish Book Prize in USA.
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