Rosenzweig s Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig s attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara Benjamin s innovative reading of The Star of Redemption places Rosenzweig s best-known work at the beginning of an intellectual trajectory that culminated in a monumental translation of the Bible, thus overturning fundamental assumptions that have long guided the appraisal of this titan of modern Jewish thought. She argues that Rosenzweig s response to modernity was paradoxical: he challenged his...