| #290744 in Books | Targum Pr | 2002-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 234 pages | ||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Very good.|By Grass Tiger|This is a wonderful book. The author did not intend to say if these animals exist or not, but how they impact Halacha (Jewish law). He does explore if they exist or not because this impacts Halacha, but that is not his goal. He is trying to get to the root of why the sages thought these animals existed or if they indeed did. It seems obvious that the s
This book explores conflicts between the Talmud and science in the context of Torah mysteries of zoology. The Talmud and Midrash discuss a wide range of bizarre creatures, including mermaids, unicorns, griffins, dragons, sea-serpents and phoenixes, as well as strange biological concepts such as spontaneous generation. Mysterious Creatures discusses these cases in detail and brings a range of different approaches for understanding them. It is an essential book for any stu...
You easily download any file type for your device.Mysterious Creatures: Intriguing Torah Enigmas of Natural and Unnatural History | Nosson Slifkin. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
