Noah Efron

Dr. Efron is an historian of science and religion whose writing and teaching focus on Jewish attitudes towards nature and science in early modern Europe. He teaches at Bar Ilan University, where he inaugurated a new graduate program in the history and philosophy of science. He has taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Tel Aviv University, and the Jerusalem affiliate of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Efron’s new book, Trembling with Fear, about religion in Israel, is forthcoming from Basic Books. Dr. Efron also received the 1999 Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science/John Templeton Foundation Grant for Research and Writing on the Constructive Interaction of the Sciences and Religion for his book-in-progress, “Golem, God and Man: Divine and Human in an Age of Biotechnology.”