A New Exegesis with God’s Help

Admiel Kosman

2000

I am now writing, with God’s help, a new commentary on your breasts.
It is a precious, blessed composition, in my poverty I have gathered various commentaries,
From what came to hand. It is a charming interpretation, an anthology of you, delicate and soft,
Folded between my lips.
It follows the ancient code of textual interpretation, literal…
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Admiel Kosman

b. 1957

Admiel Kosman is a poet and a professor of Talmudic studies. Born in Haifa and educated in a religious environment, he attended yeshiva and earned his doctorate in Talmud at Bar-Ilan University. He teaches at Potsdam University in Germany, and is also the Academic Director of the Abraham Geiger College, a rabbinical seminary for Reform rabbis. He won the Brenner Prize in 2000.

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