By Yehezkel Kaufman
These 3 chapters characterize a huge test by way of the writer to reply to the query as to why, having unfold to just about all peoples worldwide, Christianity used to be no longer used to be capable of anchor itself one of the Jews? Why all these Jews that experience develop into Christians, have additionally ultimately disappeared from the rolls of the Jewish people?
The writings of Yehezkel Kaufmann (1889-1963), overdue Professor of Bible on the Hebrew collage of Jerusalem, fall into 3 major different types: Bible reports, of which the four-volume background of the faith of Israel is the magnum opus; socio-historical research of Jewry's destiny and lifestyles as a diaspora-nation neighborhood, with the two-volume Gold ve-Nekhar (Exile and Estrangement) being its most eminent scholarly project during this regard; ultimately topical articles facing rapid socio-political difficulties of Zionism and the rising country of Israel.
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