Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah Paperback – Illustrated, September 24, 2013

I read a review of this book in a Reform Jewish magazine and was intrigued. I purchased 5 copies; 4 to give as gifts to friends who had been Bat Mitzvahed as adults and one for me to keep. The D'Vars are definitely different and the points of view are interesting. I've enjoyed reading them each week as the year progresses.p.s. Your service was better than wonderful. I was amazed at how quickly I received the books.

As it is described, this is 54 contemporary Jews wrestling with their given portions of the Torah. You will be encouraged by some of the responses, amused by many, and perhaps offended by some, but I appreciated their honesty and their angst, and would like to see them tackle more of their scriptures than just Genesis through Deuteronomy. This is a wonderfully interesting read.

I find myself a lot asking what it means to be Jewish anymore, since more Jews than not don't even keep kosher these days. It's nice to get a perspective from several different modern days Jews on what the Torah and Judaism mean to them. Great read, really fun and insightful.

This was an interesting and intriguing book but, by its very nature, it was a bit scatter-shot. I would nonetheless recommend the book as being thought-provoking and worth reading.

This book is fun--having 54 modern writers give fresh takes on traditional Torah portions is fun. However, it is true that this ends up being highly uneven and since it written by writers and artists, not scholars and Rabbis, some of the leaps seem a little interpretatively dubious and perhaps too clever.

very good read

Brilliant approach to modern-day Bible study. This provocative collection proves there are no new ideas under the sun, just new ways to shine light on enduring questions about who we are and why we are the way we are.

The theory of this book is interesting: get 54 modern Jews, not students of the Bible (Tanakh) to read the 54 weekly Torah portions and respond to them as artists, not as religious persons or scholars. Great idea, right? The products range from puerile through sophistry to evocative reminiscence and intelligent, but the average is very low quality, uninteresting and uninspired. Don't waste your money.