About the Author

Private scholar David Birnbaum is known in academic circles primarily as the author of the Summa Metaphysica series: an overarching metaphysics.He is a graduate of Yeshiva Dov Revel, Yeshiva University High School, CCNY and Harvard

God and Evil (1988), the first book in the landmark Summa Metaphysica series,has been assigned as a Required Text at universities around the world, and was a Book of the Month feature selection of the Jewish Book Club. The work has gone through Five Printings and eighteen thousand copies to date. The author is known as a leading conceptual theorist.

The two–volume Summa Metaphysica series was crafted over a twenty–six year span, 1982–1988 and then 2001–2008. It was the prime focus of a major international academic conference at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson,NY), April 2012. [see www.Bard1000.com].

Jews, Church & Civilizatio – Birnbaum’s seven–volume integrated Jewish TimeLine work – was crafted in the 2002–2012 period.

David Birnbaum’s works have been used as course texts at Brandeis, Hebrew University,Yeshiva University, Hebrew Union College, Tel-Aviv University, Emory, JTS, Bar Ilan, and Union Theological Seminary, among others. His works have been reviewed by dozens of leading academic journals worldwide.

A long time ago, he taught “The Science of Strategy” at the New School in NY.

He lives and works in Manhattan.

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