Interest in the tension between religion and science has become the focus of much recent scholarship not only in Christian but in Jewish circles as well. Perhaps nowhere is this attempt seen as clearly as in recent works dealing with cosmology. Many recent books have attempted to reconcile contemporary views of creation with accounts found in scripture: for example, Samuelson's Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation (Cambridge, 1994), Matt's God and the Big Bang (Vermont, 1996), Schroeder's Genesis and the Big Bang (New York, 1990), and analogous books from the non-Jewish perspective, such as Trefil's The Moment of Creation (New York, 1983), and Davies' The Mind of God (New York, 1991). What these books have in common is the desire to harmonize accounts of creation that result from two webs of belief: religious and scientific.