Essays in Jewish Thought » (1)

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.

Contents Preface....................vii
1. The Attitude Toward Rome in Third-Century Judaism....................1
2. A Study of the Talmudic-Midrashic Interpretation of Prophecy....................16
3. The Concept of Peace in Classical Judaism....................36
4. The Concept of Sacrifice in Post-Biblical Judaism....................48
5. Hillel the Elder in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls....................58
6. Faith and Action....................72
7. 'Knowest Thou? ...' Notes on the Book of Job....................82
8. 'The God of Job and the God of Abraham: Some Talmudic-Midrashic Interpretations of the Book of Job....................93
9. The Book of Job and Its Interpreters....................109
10. Zion in Medieval Literature: Prose Works....................135
11. The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Studies....................149
12. Leopold Zunz and the Revolution of 1848....................166
13. Leopold Zunz and the Jewish Community....................174
14. Notes on an Unpublished Letter by I. M. Jost....................179
15. Franz Kafka and the Tree of Knowledge....................184
16. Buber as an Interpreter of the Bible....................192
17. Baeck-Buber-Rosenzweig Reading the Book of Job....................209
18. Franz Rosenzweig in His Student Years....................222
19. Franz Rosenzweig: The Story of a Conversion....................230
20. Introduction to Rosenzweig's Little Book of Common Sense and Sick Reason....................243
21. The Frankfort Lehrhaus....................254
22. Shenato ha-Aharona shel Franz Rosenzweig (Hebrew pages1-10)....................283
Source References....................284
Index....................286