Animal Sacrifices

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About the Authors J. DAVID BLEICH, PH.D. is Rosh Yeshivah (Professor of Talmud), Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University; Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Rabbi, The Yorkville Synagogue, New York City; has taught at Hunter College, Rutgers University, and Bar Ilan University; ordained, Mesivta Torah Vodaath; graduated in talmudic studies from Beth Medrash Elyon, Monsey, New York, and Kollel Kodshim of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Radun; Yadin Yadin ordination ; is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow; a post-doctoral fellow, Hastings Institute for Ethics, Society and the Life Sciences; a visiting scholar, Oxford Center for Post-Graduate Hebrew Studies; an editor in the Halakhah Department, Tradition;a contributing editor to Sh'ma; past chairman of the Committee on Medical Ethics, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Bioethics; a fellow, Academy of Jewish Philosophy; past chairman of the Committee on Law, Rabbinical Alliance of America; a member, Executive Board of COLPA (National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs ); a member, Board of Directors of Union ofOrthodox Jewish Congregations of America; a member, National Academic Advisory Council of the Academy for Jewish Studies Without Walls; a member of Committee on Ethics, Hospital for Joint Diseases and Medical Center; a member of Bioethics Committee , Metropolitan Hospital; author of Contemporary Halakhic Problems (2 vols.), Providence in the Philosophy of Gersonides , Judaism and Healing, and Bircas Ha-Chammah; editor of With Perfect Faith: Readings in the Foundations ofJewish Copyrighted Material 266 About the Authors Belief; editor (with Fred Rosner) of Jewish Bioethics; and has written extensively on topics of Jewish law and ethics in publications such as Ha-Ma'ayan, Ha-Ne'eman, Or Ha-Mizrah, Ha-Pardes, Moriah, Shanah ba-Shanah, Jewish Observer, Tradition, Sh'ma, Jewish Life, Judaism, Jewish Quarterly Review , Hastings Center Report, and Hospital Physician. JOHN BOWKER is a graduate of Oxford University. After a period as a lecturer at Cambridge University, he became Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University. A frequent visitor to the United States, he has been Vice President of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science and is Honorary President of Stauros and Adjunct Professor of Religion at North Carolina State University. He is now Dean of Chapel at Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Among his books are Problems ofSuffering in Religions ofthe World, The Sense of God, The Religious Imagination and the Sense of God, and Worlds of Faith: ReligiOUS Belief and Practice in Britain Today. CHRISTOPHER CHAPPLE grew up in Lyndonville and Avon, New York. He graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1976 and received a Ph. D. in the history of religions from Fordham University in 1980. He served for five years as Assistant Director of Institute Services at the Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions, during which time he also taught Sanskrit and religions of India at the State University ofNew York at Stony Brook. At present he is Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Karma and Creativity and of several articles exploring the implications that Indian philosophy holds for the modem world. JAMES GAFFNEY was born in New York City in 1931. He graduated from Spring Hill College and received an M.A. Copyrighted Material About the Authors 267 from Fordham University and an S.T.D. from the Gregorian University in Rome. He has taught at Gonzaga University in Florence, Illinois Benedictine College, the University of Liberia , the University of Notre Dame, and Loyola University in New Orleans, where he is currently Professor of Ethics. He is the editor of Essays in Morality and Ethics and the author of Moral Questions, Focus on Doctrine, Biblical Notes on the Lectionary, Newness ofLife, Sin Reconsidered, and numerous articles. SIDNEY GENDIN is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University. His Ph. D. is from New York University (1965). He taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for five years before coming to Eastern Michigan in 1970. He is co-editor of Philosophy: A Contemporary Perspective and has published dozens ofarticles and book reviews in leading philosophical journals such as The American Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Philosophy, Australasian Journal ofPhilosophy, and Philosophia. He has just completed a book-length study of the Arrow General Impossibility Theorem . He has been cited several times by his university for...