CHRISTOPHER P. BENTON received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Houston and taught college mathematics for twenty years. Currently, he holds the position of Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Research at Alvin Community College in Alvin, TX. Dr. Benton is a member of Congregation Emanu El in Houston, TX, where he has served on their Board of Directors and as Chair of the Adult Continuing Education Committee, and in addition to the study of rabbinic literature, his interests include songwriting, guitar, French horn, Native American flutes, digital photography, advanced multivariate statistics, algebraic topology, algebraic group theory, fractals and chaos theory, and watching ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny.