Essays in Jewish Thought

by Nahum Glatzer

Overview

Examines and explores divers topics of Jewish thought and history

A fascinating and eclectic collection of twenty-two essays, Essays in Jewish Thought examines and explores diverse topics of Jewish thought and history. From Judaism’s view of ancient Rome at its imperial apogee and the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jewish thought in Europe’s revolutions of 1848 and Franz Kafka, the collection offers a rich compendium of essays of interest to scholars, historians, philosophers, and students. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817390341
Publisher:	University of Alabama Press
Publication date:	10/21/2015
Series:	Judaic Studies Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1903–1990) earned his Ph.D. at the University of Frankfurt, where he was Martin Buber’s successor until forced to flee Hitler. In 1938 he came to the U.S., where he taught at Brandeis and Boston universities, among others. An editor as well as a scholar, he was a founder of Schocken Books and edited the works of Franz Kafka for publication in English, and he became a notable interpreter of Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Preface
1. The Attitude Toward Rome in Third-Century Judaism
2. A Study of the Talmudic-Midrashic Interpretation of Prophecy
3. The Concept of Peace in Classical Judaism
4. The Concept of Sacrifice in Post-Biblical Judaism
5. Hillel the Elder in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
6. Faith and Action
7. ‘Knowest Thou?…’ Notes on the Book of Job
8. The God of Job and the God of Abraham: Some Talmudic-Midrashic Interpretations of the Book of Job
9. The Book of Job and Its Interpreters
10. Zion in Medieval Literature: Prose Works
11. The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Studies
12. Leopold Zunz and the Revolution of 1848
13. Leopold Zunz and the Jewish Community
14. Notes on an Unpublished Letter by I. M. Jost
15. Franz Kafka and the Tree of Knowledge
16. Buber as an Interpreter of the Bible
17. Baeck-Buber-Rosenzweig Reading the Book of Job
18. Franz Rosenzweig in His Student Years
19. Franz Rosenzweig: The Story of a Conversion
20. Introduction to Rosenzweig's Little Book of Common Sense and Sick Reason
21. The Frankfort Lehrhaus
22. Shenato ha-Aharona shel Franz Rosenzweig (Hebrew pages 1–10)
Source References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Essays in Jewish Thought covers a wide range of subjects: some essays deal with the Biblical and post-Biblical periods, some with medieval Jewry, and a goodly number with the modern period and some of its philosophical spokesmen. Glatzer has the marvelous ability to gather together isolated statements from the Talmud and weave them into a fine historical pattern. One might take exception to some of his ideas, but one must agree with the general thrust of his historical review.” —Jewish Quarterly Review


“Glatzer must be considered one of the central figures in the emigration of German-Jewish culture to North America [and is] responsible for training a whole generation of American-born scholars. . . . [He] has also been primarily responsible for the discovery and dissemination in America of the works of Franz Rosenzweig and Franz Kafka. . . . What is immediately impressive in Essays in Jewish Thought is the extraordinary range of his interests and expertise. It is inspiring to find such a model of breadth from the Rabbinic period to the Middle Ages and the 19th and 20th centuries.” —International Studies in Philosophy

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