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Reviewed on February 15, 2005
This is a translation of what is arguably Heschel's most important, ambitious, and monumental work. Best known for his role in the Civil Rights and peace movements of the 1960s and for his contributions to the fields of biblical studies, Heschel takes a 19th-century Wissenschaft des Judentums theme (that is, the scientific investigation of Judaism) laid out by David Zevi Hoffmann and others that there are two hermeneutic schools of opposing methods of interpretation and outlook repr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More