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Laura Lieber, assistant director of the Duke Center for Jewish Studies, right, talks with Dr. Claudia Bailey after Lieber gave a talk Tuesday, March 12, 2013 "Beyond the Holocaust: Invented Mothers, Mothers of Invention: Biblical Women Reimagined" at the Fayetteville Public Library in Fayetteville. Lieber and Bailey are longtime friends and Bailey was once Lieber biology professor at the University of Arkansas. The talk highlighted some of the most memorable figures from the Hebrew Bible and the literature of the ancient synagogue.