Science & Judaism Quiz

How much do you know about the relationship between science and Judaism?

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The Bible and Talmud saw science and Jewish tradition as pathways to the same divine truth. But still, the two regularly come in conflict.

Question 1 of 10
Who is the leading rabbi of the emerging Jewish-specific branch of psychology?
Question 2 of 10
Which of these Jewish thinkers also developed astronomical models, tables for solar and lunar motion, and a plan for a camera obscura?
Question 3 of 10
In traditional Jewish law, who decides whether a person who is sick should eat on Yom Kippur?
Question 4 of 10
Which of the following proponents of psychology or psychiatry was not Jewish?
Question 5 of 10
True or false: The rabbis of the Talmud developed intricacies of Jewish law to deal with the phenomenon of intersex people.
Question 6 of 10
How do Jews respond to the contradiction between the creation story in Genesis and evolutionary theory?
Question 7 of 10
Which of the following people is known as the "Zoo Rabbi," committed to understanding the role of science in traditional Jewish sources?
Question 8 of 10
Who first applied the anthropological study of folklore to the Jewish Bible?
Question 9 of 10
Some modern kabbalists connect the scientific theory about the exponential expansion of the universe to which mystical concept?
Question 10 of 10
Which of these medieval scholars engaged in astrological study?
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