The ÒCreation SeriesÓ lectures to undergraduate students in the early years of this century are an informal but rich guide to some of the most enigmatic characteristics of the Torah's Creation narratives. Built around careful textual analysis and guided entirely by the rich tradition of Midrash, Zohar, Sefer Yezira, haBahir, Talmud, and miforashei hamikra, fully informed by evolutionary biology, cosmology, and quantum physics, these lectures offer a brief outline of basic concepts meant to be filled in over the course of a lifetime of study.
These ÒCreation SeriesÓ transcripts provide important keys to avoiding the demeaning errors of fundamentalist readings and leave the reader with a new respect for the continually unfolding wisdom of Ma'aseh Bereishit.
paper, 316 pp, Creation, Torah, narratives, nested, RavMatis Weinberg| | 316PAGES