Andrew Ramer 
Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud 

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).

About the author

Eli Andrew Ramer is the author of several books from Wipf and Stock including Ever After, a queer extension of the lives of 11 famous writers, Revelations for a New Millennium, and five books of Jewish stories: Texting with Angels, Queering the Text, Torah Told Different, Deathless, and Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud. He’s a co-author of the international best seller Ask Your Angels and the author of Angel Answers. An ordained maggid (sacred storyteller in the Jewish tradition) he lives in Oakland, California up the street from an amusement park called Fairyland. For more information on his writing and teaching please visit his website – www.andrewramer.com