
Torah Told Different
Stories for a Pan/Poly/Post-Denominational World
Andrew Ramer(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 17. August 2016
Book
Hardback
138 pages
978-1-4982-8102-7 (ISBN)
Description
What Dorothy discovered in Oz and Alice discovered in Wonderland you'll discover here: a parallel reality where a third temple rose and fell in antiquity, women were ordained in the fifth century CE, and alternate sages and texts ripple in and out of the ones we know from history.
This work of midrash, interpretive stories, opens with:
Before God began to create anything, before there was heaven or earth, night or day, good or bad, in or out, up or down, God said, ""I must create Myself.""
and heads toward its conclusion with:
It was late afternoon. Tirzah, the designated messiah for our planet, was sitting in her study, up in sixth heaven.
These are two of the ways in which this book is different. Liturgist and midrash writer Andrew Ramer not only reinvents Jewish history. He also reinvents his own family, the Talmud, and the Hebrew Bible, adding excerpts from texts by some of our ancient women sages, inviting you to ask yourself, ""What does it mean to be a Jew in the twenty-first century? What grounds me and guides me in our tradition? And what gives me hope and dreams in a troubled world of trembling possibilities?""
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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: 11 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-8102-7 (9781498281027)
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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.