As a Driven Leaf Author:Milton Steinberg Read by George Guidall, AS A DRIVEN LEAF is a novel in which fictional and historical characters comfortably co-exist. It is the gripping tale of the renegade Talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuya, caught in a personal struggle between his own faith and the compelling culture of Rome, circa 70 C.E. The genius of Milton Steinberg's great work is that it... more » illuminates the political and intellectual conflicts of Rabbinic times in a way that shows their relevance to Jewish faith, nationhood and personal development in every era, including our own. AS A DRIVEN LEAF first appeared in 1940 and has been in print ever since.« less