The New Jerusalem: A Millennium Poetic / Prophetic Travel Diario, 1959-62

Robert Eisenman, renowned Biblical scholar and author of James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls series, and The New Testament Code, reveals an unexpectedly lyrical voice in this collection of poems, written between 1959 and 1962, beginning in San Francisco and continuing on the overland trail to India via Paris (when it was still “a Moveable Feast”), Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan. A backpacker’s journal in free verse—which can be looked upon as an “anti-Beat Manifesto” and even includes some “quasi-prophecy”—The New Jerusalem is an intimate self-portrait of a young man at a turning point in his spiritual development.