Old Wine, New Flasks
Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition
New York : W.H. Freeman, [1997]
Format: Book
Description: xii, 362 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Old Wine, New Flasks is a unique and provocative look at how science and religion - too often considered at odds with one another - are actually parallel ways of trying to make sense of the same material world, each a voice intertwining with the other to help shape true human understanding. With great humor and wit, the authors - one a Nobel laureate and the other an Israeli-American writer and student of religion - show how daily experience and seemingly innocuous questions such as "What is this mixture?" "How do I tell right from left?" and "How can one make the bitter sweet?" can lead to deeper philosophical issues concerning religion, art, and science. Old Wine, New Flasks discusses how authority is conferred and contested, what it means to be impure, whether humans have a right to dominate the environment, and the difference between the natural and the unnatural. Exploring these and other topics, the authors reveal how science and Jewish religious tradition, although different in many ways, nevertheless share the conviction that the world is a very real place, that the actions of beings matter, and that there is an underlying order to the universe.
Contents:
Preface -- 1. Is Nature Natural? -- 2. A Sukkah from an Elephant -- 3. You Must Not Deviate to the Right or the Left -- 4. Bitter Waters Run Sweet -- 5. The Flag That Came out of the Blue: A Play in Three Acts and Two Intermezzi -- 6. Signs and Portents: No Parking in the Courtroom -- 7. Pure/Impure -- 8. Camel Caravans in the Pentagon -- Epilogue -- How We Came to Old Wine, New Flasks, with a Little Help from Our Friends -- Notes -- Credits -- Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish Terms -- Index.
ISBN:
0716728990
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-347) and index.