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Essays in Jewish Thought

by Nahum N. Glatzer

Pages: 295

Contributors: Nahum N. Glatzer

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Place of Publication: University

Publication Year: 1978

Subjects: Zunz, Leopold,--1794-1886,Buber, Martin,--1878-1965,Rosenzweig, Franz,--1886-1929,Judaism--History

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Preface

1: The Attitude Toward Rome in Third-Century Judaism

Notes

2: A Study of the Talmudic-Midrashic Interpretation of Prophecy

Notes

3: The Concept of Peace in Classical Judaism

Notes

4: The Concept of Sacrifice in Post-Biblical Judaism

Notes

5: Hillel the Elder in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Notes

6: Faith and Action

Notes

7: "Knowest Thou . . . ?" Notes on the Book of Job

Notes

8: The God of Abraham and the God of Job: Some Talmudic-Midrashic Interpretations of the Book of Job

Notes

9: The Book of Job and Its Interpreters

Notes

10: Zion in Medieval Literature Prose Works

Notes

11: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Studies

Notes

12 Leopold Zunz and the Revolution of 1848: With Publication of Four Letters by Zunz to the Ehrenbergs

Notes

13: Leopold Zunz and the Jewish Community

Notes

14: Notes on an Unpublished Letter by I. M. Jost

Notes

15: Franz Kafka and the Tree of Knowledge

Notes

16: Buber as an Interpreter of the Bible

Notes

17: Baeck-Buber-Rosenzweig Reading the Book of Job

Notes

18: Franz Rosenzweig in His Student Years

19: Franz Rosenzweig the Story of a Conversion

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20: Introduction to Rosenzweig's Little Book of Common Sense and Sick Reason

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21: The Frankfort Lehrhaus

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22: Shenato Ha-Aharona Shel Franz Rosenzweig

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