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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10510725.
- catalog contributor b10510726.
- catalog contributor b10510727.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-347) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 362 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0716728990".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.H. Freeman,".
- catalog subject "296.3/75 21".
- catalog subject "BM 538.S3 H711o 1997".
- catalog subject "BM538.S3 H64 1997".
- catalog subject "Jews.".
- catalog subject "Judaism and science.".
- catalog subject "Judaism.".
- catalog subject "Religion and Science.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Old wine, new flasks : reflections on science and Jewish tradition / Roald Hoffmann, Shira Leibowitz Schmidt.".
- catalog type "text".