Talmudic Verses
Published on 25. August 2023
Book
Hardback
66 pages
978-1-59924-144-9 (ISBN)
Description
In Talmudic Verses, Steven Shankman reflects on his own experience, and on contemporary events, through the lens of the ancient Babylonian Talmud, the crown jewel of the oral tradition of Judaism. He in effect "translates" the Hebrew and Aramaic of several tractates of the Talmud into the universal language of a poetry that ranges from ecstatic free verse to rhymed and unrhymed verse composed in iambic pentameter. Shankman brings the searching and profound ethical dilemmas posed by the ancient rabbis to life in moving, meditative verse.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
261 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59924-144-9 (9781599241449)
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Person
Steven Shankman is Distinguished Professor of English and Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, and Director of the Oregon Humanities Center.
Stephen Durrant is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, and director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. Along with four others, they are co-editors of a 2,250-page anthology, 'The World of Literature' (Prentice-Hall, 1999).