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'Confronting Creation' does what it claims to do and does it superbly. The author opens, unpacks, and presents in intelligible form a significant, but complicated, Rabbinic text. He does so in such fashion that we understand the historical setting of the text, the mind-set of the sages, and the relevance of the text to the contemporary religious quest. The selection of texts from Genesis Rabbah and his perceptive, straight-forward analysis of these texts will appeal to the serious beginning student and serve as a model for every scholar wishing to translate the results of his scholarly achievements for students and serious laymen. Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman, Chizuk Amuno Congregation, Baltimore, Maryland

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Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1953, his PhD from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and rabbinical ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, ' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

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