You Shall Be as Gods

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separated and persecuted different religions, and in which scientific knowledge could be religious heresy. The scholars within the Jewish ghettos largely accepted their imprisonment and restricted themselves to the never ending study of the Tal-