Norman Solomon is a member of Wolfson College, Oxford, and the Oxford University Teaching and Research Unit in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Born in Cardiff, South Wales, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he has served as rabbi to Orthodox congregations in Britain. He was founder-Director of the Centre for the Study of Judaism and Jewish/Christian Relations at Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham and from 1995 Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His publications include The Talmud : A Selection (Penguin Classics); A Very Short Introduction to Judaism (OUP); Torah from Heaven : The Reconstruction of Faith (Littman Library).