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Article: Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness, vol 1.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 17, 1998
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Between God and Man
Mr. Neusner, a professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida and Bard College, is the editor, with his son Noam Neusner, of To Grow in Wisdom: An Anthology of Abraham Joshua Heschel (Madison).
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness, by Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner (Yale, 402 pp., $35)
BEFORE Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 72) came to the attention of spiritually earnest Americans, the view of Judaism held by many Christians had not changed all that much since the composition of the New Testament. For them, Torah was a dusty, rigorous doctrine without a great deal to say to those who sought a ...