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Authors: Norbert M. Samuelson
ISBN-13: 9780521452144, ISBN-10: 0521452147
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
A unique synthesis of religious belief and philosophy which puts an entirely new complexion on creation.
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | The Modern Dogma of Creation | 23 |
Ch. 1 | Creation in Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption | 29 |
Ch. 2 | A critique of Rosenzweig's doctrine: is it Jewish and is it believable? | 68 |
Pt. 2 | A Jewish View of Creation | 75 |
Ch. 3 | Classical Jewish philosophy | 81 |
Ch. 4 | Classical rabbinic commentaries | 107 |
Pt. 3 | The Foundations for the Jewish View of Creation | 155 |
Ch. 5 | The account of creation in Genesis | 157 |
Ch. 6 | The account of the origin in Plato's Timaeus | 167 |
Pt. 4 | A Believable View of Creation | 199 |
Ch. 7 | Creation from the perspective of contemporary physics | 206 |
Ch. 8 | Creation from the perspective of contemporary philosophy | 241 |
Notes | 265 | |
Select bibliography | 319 | |
Indices | 344 |