Slifkin republished this work in 2006, in a greatly revised and expanded edition, under the new title, The Challenge of Creation. The ideas expressed in these texts were extremely controversial although they were, for the most part, not new ideas. Within a short time the book was banned by a large group of Orthodox rabbis for its perceived irreverence towards the rabbis of the Talmud, as well as its assertions that the Talmud is not necessarily authoritative, such as in its statements related to science.