Rebecca Goodman

Rebecca Goodman, maiden name Murphy and second wife of Saul Goodman, is a former anthropology major who minored in psychology. She is one of the most knowledgeable people in the trilogy. When she met Saul, she was working as a prostitute and was addicted to heroin. At the beginning of the trilogy, she was age 25 and her husband Saul was past age 60.

Early in the trilogy, she was a source of information for Saul. She knew of the original Illuminati in Italy, Spain, and Germany in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. She also knew about the twenty-three divisions of the Ishmaelian sect of Islam, and claimed that the Aga Khan led all of them. She believed the modern day Illuminati was a hoax started by students at the University of California, Berkeley, around 1966 or 1967.

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Rebecca wrote a memoir of her husband Saul Goodman named He Opened the Cages. She wrote while grieving his loss from a heart attack in 1983. The book is almost as popular in political-science classes as is her study of comparative mythology, The Golden Apples of the Sun, the Silver Apples of the Moon, is in anthropology classes.

She was not Jewish as commonly believed, and was named after Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.