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The commentary of Rabbi David Kimhi (1160-1235) on the prophet Isaiah, chapters 1-39, in a Hebrew critical edition, makes up the main portion of this study. Presented with an English introduction by Louis Finkelstein, the commentary also includes a useful biography of Kimhi in English, an introduction to his commentary, and a presentation of a previously unknown treatise on Genesis in Hebrew.

This present volume is a modest effort to analyze some of the moral dilemmas of our time, and to indicate elements of hope for the futur. The essays refer to a variety of complex situations, each of which seems to threaten our generation, but which, appraoched creatively, may turn out to be a stage in the improvement of the human condition. The volume is based on the premise that consideration of man's ethical life should be given the same attention now directed to scientific and technological achievemnt, and indeed that this achievemnet be utilized, when possible, for the better...

The classic statement of the ideas which form the religious consciousness of the Jewish people at large, by one of the great minds of Jewish scholarship of our century. His creative scholarship, compelling English style, and warm personality have given this book lasting influence on Jew and non-Jew alike. Includes the original preface of 1909 and the introduction by Louis Finkelstein.