Science, Religion, & Ethics

Science, Religion, & Ethics:

SCIENCE AND JUDAISM

The Science, Religion, and Ethics Program of the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy acknowledges with gratitude the collaboration of UW-Madison chemistry librarian Sharon Mulvey in preparing this list of books.

Selected books, including Professor Nadler's latest book and Chemistry Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann's "Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition" are on display in a closed case near room 1145 of the Chemistry Building (first floor of the Shain Research Tower).

Here is a list of suggested reading for further information on science and Judaism:

Boyarin, Jonathan. Jewishness and the Human Dimension
1st ed. ed. New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.

Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century
Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Cohen, Harry, 1885-1969. Jews in the World of Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Jews Eminent in the Natural and Social Sciences
New York : Monde Publishers, 1956.

Dorff, Elliot N. Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics
1st ed. ed. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1998.

Efron, Noah J. Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

Freudenthal, Gad. Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions
Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.

Hart, Mitchell Bryan. Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Hoffmann, Roald and Schmidt, Shira Leibowitz. Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition
New York : W.H. Freeman, c1997.

Jacobs, Louis. God, Torah, Israel: Traditionalism without Fundamentalism
Cincinnati; West Orange, N.J. : Hebrew Union College Press ; Distributed by Behman House, c1990.

Jewish Law and the New Reproductive Technologies
Hoboken, N.J. : KTAV Pub. House, c1997.

Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Levy, B. Barry. Planets, Potions, and Parchments: Scientific Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Eighteenth Century
Montréal : Published for the Jewish Public Library by McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.

Maimonides and the Sciences
Boston ; Dordrecht : Kluwer, c2000.

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Guide of the Perplexed
Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub. Co., c1995.

Marcus, Rebecca B. Moses Maimonides: Rabbi, Philosopher, and Physician
New York: F. Watts, 1969.

Mind, Body, and Judaism : The Interaction of Jewish Law with Psychology and Biology
Jersey City, NJ : KTAV Pub. House, c2004.

Nadler, Steven M. Rembrandt's Jews
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Spinoza : A Life
Cambridge, U.K.; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Orthodox Forum (14th : 2002). Judaism, Science, and Moral Responsibility
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.

Ruderman, David B. Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995.

Slifkin, Nosson. Challenge of Creation : Judaism's Encounter with Science, Cosmology, and Evolution
[Ramat Bet Shemesh] : Brooklyn, NY; Zoo Torah; distributed by Yashar Books / Lambda Publishers, c2006.

Wahrman, Miryam Z. Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide
Hanover : University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, c2002.

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