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Article: Among the patriarchs.(Book Review)
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- January 16, 2004
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The Beginning of Wisdom
Reading Genesis
Leon R. Kass
The Free Press, $35, 720 pp.
Leon Kass is a professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is also the chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics. Biology and ethics are his professional game. This book is a labor of love, an amateur's close and careful reading of Genesis from beginning to end. I do not mean it is amateurish, but rather that it was written out of a long-term affection for this biblical writing developed over years of teaching.
Providing large portions of English translation as well as frequent recourse to the original ...