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Shalem's Jewish Thought Series, in Hebrew and English, looks at the meaning of modern Judaism for our time.
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis By Leon Kass Hebrew edition published by the Shalem Press, Jerusalem 2010
Leon Kass' The Beginning of Wisdom opens a new door to those seeking wisdom. Today's Israeli – disconnected from religious Judaism but searching for inspiration; those who no longer appreciate the mythic Biblical readings of the early Zionists - but still yearn for great literature from their own tradition; and those who subscribe to rational Western thought, but are not satisfied with an academic approach to the text –will all discover common ground for a new discourse. Those who are not familiar with the Bible of their fathers, but are interested in learning more about its theological, conceptual and literary nature, will find this book to be a treasury of knowledge on human nature, social insight and political interpretation. Leon Kass is an MD with a PhD in biochemistry. For the last twenty-five years he has served as a professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and has taught a variety of courses in his specialty in the sciences, bio-medical ethics and philosophy. In 2002-2005 he chaired the President's Council on Bioethics. He is presently the Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Selected Publications:
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. New York: Free Press, 2003. Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002. Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson. The Ethics of Human Cloning. Washington: AEI Press, 1998. Leon R. Kass. The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs. New York: Free Press, 1985
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