Bibliodrama is a progress of stepping inside the biblical text and creating midrash as a process of improvisation. Peter Pitzele is the creator of this medium. This is his "how to do it," manual, the one used at the Institute for Contemporary Midrash training seminars.
Peter Pitzele, Ph.D., is a writer, teacher, and institutional consultant. He received his master's degree in English Literature from Balliol College of Oxford University and his doctorate in English and American Literature from Harvard University. He has been a certified TEP (Trainer, Educator, Practitioner) in Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy since 1984. He is the author of
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter with the Myths of Genesis (Harper SanFrancisco, 1995) and lives part of the year within sight of the ocean on Fire Island, where he is writing his next book.
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