"The book is full of engaging witticisms. There is hardly a paragraph in which there is not a pun or a play on words. And the book is packed with off-hand references to world literature, mythology, history, and philosophy, many of them beyond the ken of most readers. I found the style to be both challenging and at times worthy of a good laugh out loud."--Jerome Gellman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Reading Religion "In Persons and Other Things , Mark Glouberman emphasizes that the philosophy of Genesis stands or falls as philosophy and is distinct from religion or theology. Glouberman conveys the Hebrew philosophers' insights through an original interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2. To further deepen his position about the relevance of the Bible to Western philosophy, Glouberman shows that the biblical philosophy of non-naturalism supports or undermines the central positions of important contemporary philosophers such as P.F.

Strawson, Charles Taylor, and Thomas Nagel." --Richard Keshen, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Cape Breton University "Glouberman invokes fundamental principles in each of these quite varied essays. In Genesis 1, God creates the natural world (including humans); nature is a complete system, in process, and in which individuals can be individuated by their place in the system. But God's resting on the seventh day indicates that He is a particular, not in the system. Nature doesn't rest. Thus human beings, considered as particulars rather than as individuals, constitute limits to naturalism." --Steven Burns, Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University.