The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis - Paperback
by Leon R. Kass
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226425672ISBN-10:226425673UPC:9780226425672Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Judaism, Biblical Criticism & InterpretationBook Topic:Old TestamentSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.60 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCXPNK13HF
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R. Kass shows in The Beginning of Wisdom, it's also timeless. Examining Genesis in a philosophical light, Kass presents it not as a story of what happened long ago, but as the enduring story of humanity itself. He asserts that the first half of Genesis contains insights about...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226425672ISBN-10:226425673UPC:9780226425672Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Judaism, Biblical Criticism & InterpretationBook Topic:Old TestamentSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.60 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCXPNK13HF
Leon R. Kass, MD, is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. A member of the President's Council on Bioethics, he is the author or coauthor of five books, including, most recently, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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