Dom Beveridge

The telling part is good, but some questionable ideas

Revisado: 05-02-21

For the most part I enjoyed this book. The story of the Pesach, and the meaning of this deeply fascinating tradition is worthy of a book and of our attention. Gerson lays out the story and provides extensive and well-researched interpretations of the Haggadah.

However, some specious ideas creep in along the way. The parallels between the emancipation of Jewish slaves and American ones are familiar and relevant. But that Abraham Lincoln was a latter-day Moses, inspired by the desire to free slaves (as Getson suggests) feels like a reach. In the final chapter we see Gerson’s true colors, as he comes out as a creationist, citing a series of familiar bumper-sticker quotes from minds not worthy of quotation in this book. He even quotes Michael Behe (the one who was discredited during the 2004 Dover school trial), and leans on his mosgiided theory of “irreducible complexity” extensively in trying to bring this book to a conclusion. It fails and is a disappointing end to an otherwise creditable book.

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