A.D. Levine
Author and historian A.D. Levine, author of "The Seeds of Scripture: The Beginnings of the Bible" (2021) and a retired research librarian.
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Sep 29, 2026
A.D. LevineGUEST
What inspired your book? I was at a workshop for the Jewish Theater Association, and I went to an auditorium where they were having bibliodramas.
A.D. LevineGUEST
which is everybody is assigned a character and you're assigned a story and you improvise the story, you improvise the dialogue.
A.D. LevineGUEST
It was wonderful because everybody knew who Jacob was and the basic outlines of the plot.
A.D. LevineGUEST
And they were able to improvise what the characters might be saying and might be thinking.
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And what happened in the beginning? So why did you think such a book was needed in 2022?