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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
Which of the following proponents of psychology or psychiatry was not Jewish?
Question 2 of 10
True or false: In traditional Jewish thought, evolution is always rejected.
Question 3 of 10
Who is the leading rabbi of the emerging Jewish-specific branch of psychology?
Question 4 of 10
In traditional Jewish law, who decides whether a person who is sick should eat on Yom Kippur?
Question 5 of 10
Which of these Jews believed that religion was the "opium of the masses"?
Question 6 of 10
Which instrument was renown Jewish physicist Richard Feynman known for playing?
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
True or false: An autopsy was performed in the Talmud to reveal the exact number of joints and limbs in the human body.
Question 9 of 10
Who first applied the anthropological study of folklore to the Jewish Bible?
Question 10 of 10
What topics are covered in modern ethnographic studies of the Jewish community?
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