A Literary Approach to Text Rooted in Joy & Awe with Liana Wertman.
Liana Wertman, founder of the Torah Studio and fantasy novel enthusiast, has recently decided that Torah is the best fantasy story of all time. Why? Great fantasy immerses us in impossible worlds, infuses us with power, and helps us to confront societies most difficult ideas. And Torah, which offers us our core story from which we get to learn and grown, does all of this and more. Because maybe the supernatural relationships with the divine, the heroes making complex decisions, and the explorations the most violent aspects of human society are not there to upset us but are chances for us to learn something really important.
Source sheet line up includes: Ursula K Le Guin, Brandon Sanderson, Moshe MiSinai, N.K. Jemison, Ken Liu, Robert Alter, and more!
This is a part of Torah Studio's 5784 Elul Series: Our Torah, Ourselves - How today's Torah scholars are finding themselves (and so much more) in ancient texts.
Torah as High Fantasy
Your purchase includes a download of one zip file, which contains:
- The complete video recording of this shiur (.m4a file)
- The record of the live chat from the Zoom room during recording (.txt file)
- An audio-only version of the recording for easy listening (.mp4 file)
- The source sheet with the text in English and Hebrew (.pdf file)
- The slideshow used in the shiur (.pdf file)
- A DIY source sheet for further study (.pdf file)