Talmudic Verses

by Barbara Wiedemann

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599241447
• ISBN13: 9781599241449
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"