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    Rebec­ca New­berg­er Goldstein

    Rebec­ca New­berg­er Gold­stein received her doc­tor­ate in phi­los­o­phy from Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty. Her award-win­ning books include the nov­els The Mind-Body Prob­lem, Prop­er­ties of Light, and Mazel, and non­fic­tion stud­ies of Kurt Gödel and Baruch Spin­oza. She has received a MacArthur Foun­da­tion Fel­low­ship and Guggen­heim and Rad­cliffe fel­low­ships, and she was elect­ed to the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Arts and Sci­ences in 2005. She lives in Massachusetts.
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    Jew­ish Athe­ism vs. Atheism

    In her last post, Rebec­ca New­berg­er Gold­stein wrote about the inspi­ra­tion behind Azarya Shein­er, the heart of her new nov­el. She has been guest-blog­ging all…
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    January 14, 2010
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    The Case for (a Fic­tion­al) God

    Rebec­ca New­berg­er Gold­stein, author of 36 Argu­ments for the Exis­tence of God: A Work of Fic­tion, is guest-blog­ging all week…
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    36 Argu­ments For The Exis­tence of God: A Work of Fiction
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