Metamorfozy lyubvi i smerti v talmudicheskih tekstah

Avtor knigi - issledovatel' talmudicheskoy literatury, to est' literatury, sozdannoy evreyskimi mudrecami v pozdney antichnosti na territorii Strany Izrailya i Sasanidskoy Persii. Kniga ne strogo nauchnaya, no prinadlezhit k zhanru esseistiki, t.e yavlyaetsya chem-to promezhutochnym mezhdu nauchnoy stat'ey i literaturnym ocherkom. Bol'shaya chast' knigi sostoit iz obsuzhdeniya izbrannyh rasskazov iz talmudicheskoy literatury, ob'yasnennyh s tochki zreniya sovremennoy literaturnoy kritiki i istoricheskoy nauki.