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Aleph does not publish book reviews in the usual sense, but rather notices of varying length, which more often than not are merely informative and non-evaluative. For Hebrew books the English title is given in parentheses as found in the book itself (or as translated by us); authors' names are given according to their common English spelling, usually as indicated by the publisher. To be sure, this is not a scientific edition, but the work of an amateur in the best sense of the word.\n Maimonides' argument that the coming-to-be of the world cannot be studied by science (because the laws of science were different "in the beginning") he regards as "eternally valid" (p. 167) and as rendering impossible any conflict between science and the Torah with respect to cosmogony.