About the Author
David Birnbaum is known in academic circles 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. Over 50,000 sets of Summa Metaphysica are in circulation globally. Summa works have been reviewed by over fifty leading journals worldwide, including feature stories at over a dozen. The three–volume Summa Metaphysica series was crafted over a thirty-six year span, 1982–2014. It was the prime focus of a major 3+ day international academic conference at Bard College (Annandaleon-Hudson, NY), April 2012. [see www.Conference1000.com]. Jews, Church & Civilization – Birnbaum’s multi–volume integrated Jewish TimeLine work – was crafted in the 2002–2012 period. David Birnbaum’s works have been used as course texts at over a dozen colleges, including Brandeis, Hebrew University, Yeshiva University, Hebrew Union College, Tel Aviv University, Emory, JTS, Bar Ilan, and Union Theological Seminary, among others. A long time ago, he taught “The Science of Strategy” at the New School in NY. He lives and works in Manhattan.