
Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud
Andrew Ramer(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 1. February 2019
Book
Hardback
198 pages
978-1-5326-6329-1 (ISBN)
Description
Eighty years from now, in a time of increasing environmental degradation and after one sixth of the Earth's population has died in a vast pandemic, a noted rabbi in Brooklyn hosts a convocation for Jewish clergy and scholars from every background. Her vision--to create a new Talmud for living in such dangerous times. Over the course of five years the attendees work to compile a text in multiple genres--but their text is never completed.
Eighty years later, a single laptop is discovered that contains fragments of their text--and that is what this book contains. There are poems, stories, legal texts, and conversations, on belief, practice, liturgy, all designed for beleaguered people living in what seems to them the end of time. There are texts of hope, humor, despair, rage, and simple witnessing of the dying world around them (which may or may not be our world).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5326-6329-1 (9781532663291)
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Persons
Andrew Ramer who now goes by the name Eli, is the coauthor of the international bestseller Ask Your Angels. A maggid, or sacred story teller in the Jewish tradition, he is also the author of several acclaimed books that bridge the worlds of angels, queerness, and Jewish spirituality, including the Lambda Literary Award finalist Two Flutes Playing. His most recent book, Ever After, reimagines the afterlives of eleven iconic Western writers. He lives in Oakland, California.