In mid-June 2003, some seventy members of the public-policy community, academics, journalists, and others gathered to consider the contemporary relevance of Genesis as presented in a provocative new book by bioethicist and scholar Leon Kass entitled The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (Free Press, 2003). After Dr. Kass’s remarks, three respondents offered diverse assessments of the book: Catholic author and theologian George Weigel, evangelical Protestant scholar Alan Jacobs, and Jewish scholar and editor Leon Wieseltier. Center president Hillel Fradkin moderated the lively discussion that followed.

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