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The magnificent work of modern fiction that brings the age of the Talmud to life. The characters include the well-known historical figures: Akiba, Yohanan, Joshua, Eleazar, Beruriah, and Elisha ben Abuyah, whose struggle to live in two worlds destroyed his chance to live in either. Foreword by Chaim Potok

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ISBN-10: 0874411033
ISBN-13: 978-0874411034
Author: Milton Steinberg
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Behrman House

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review by swmirsky. November 28, 1999

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

A bracing, if poignant, tale of estrangement and Truth

Although this tale is somewhat wooden in execution and its characters never come fully to life, and while the thrust of the tale, itself, is an intellectual rather than a visceral one, I was greatly moved by it. There is a tradition in the Talmud that four great sages sought to go beyond the realm of man's knowledge. One died. One went insane. One became a heretic. And only the great Akiba came out of it whole, only to be tortured to death by the Romans in the aftermath of the third abortive rebellion … more

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