[Avodah] "The Fall and Hypertime"

Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Fri Aug 7 12:56:56 PDT 2015


What's the difference between this and Gerald Schroeder?

KT, GS,
YGB

On 08/05/2015 05:53 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
> I think a philosophy book just came out detending a variant of RSSchwab's
> "two clocks" explanation of ma'aseh bereishis.
>
> RSS's shitah appeared in AOJS's Challenge (ed. R Aryeh Carmel, R/Prof
> Cyril Domb pg 164 onward.
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=5fMBnHUiwukC&lpg=PA164&pg=PA164#v=onepage>
>
> <http://www.simpletoremember.com/faqs/Science_and_Judaism.htm> surveys
> the area and summarized RSS as follows:
>
>      Similarly, Rav Shimon Schwab talks of two types of time, cosmic
>      time and earthly time. The 6 days of creation are counted according
>      to cosmic time, during which period millions of years may have
>      passed according to our measure of time.
>
> (Althugh I disagree with their next sentence on REED's position.)
>
>
> Now for the book. I just got this review
> <http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/59752-the-fall-and-hypertime>:
>
>> he Fall and Hypertime
>> Hud Hudson, Oxford University Press, 2014, 211pp., $65.00 (hbk),
>> ISBN 0198712693.
>> Reviewed by Trent Dougherty, Baylor University



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