Gethsemane - Paperback

by Atar Hadari (Author)

A collection of monologue poems by characters from the New Testament, viewed from the perspective of their Jewish background. Thinking his way back into situations depicted in the stories of the New Testament and what their Jewish legal and social context probably will have been, Atar Hadari places the voices of different characters, finding the tension between what the reality would have been and how such a voice would sound in today's world. Echoes of today's religious thought and language intertwined with the details of the past locate occasionally biting humour in these poems. These are the Jewish voices which often escape the gospel narrative. They do not mock the Apostles - they were human beings who were also there. They saw things which, as the android tells the bounty hunter at the end of Blade Runner, you would not believe.