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Notes- See Leo Strauss, Philosophy and Law, trans. Fred Baumann (Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society, 1987), 8. - See Leo Strauss, Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity, trans. Ken-
neth Hart Green (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997), 144. - Th e term “history-making” here is taken from Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man
and History (Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David, 1959), 135, but it encapsulates
Buber’s thought concerning the Jewish people very nicely. - See Martin Buber, On Judaism, ed. Nahum Glatzer (New York: Schocken
Books, 1967), 70; and Martin Buber, Two Types of Faith (New York: Harper &
Row, 1961). - See Franz Rosenzweig’s magnum opus, Th e Star of Redemption, trans. Wil-
liam Hallo (Boston: Beacon, 1971), 336 – 79. - For the famous exchange between Buber and Rosenzweig on the religious
status of Jewish law, see Franz Rosenzweig, On Jewish Learning, ed. Nahum Glatzer
(New York: Schocken Books, 1965), 81 – 85, 109 – 18. - See Everett Fox, “Th e Book in Its Contexts,” in Martin Buber and Franz
Rosenzweig, Scripture and Translation, ed. and trans. Everett Fox and Lawrence
Rosenwald (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), xiii – xxvii. See also Ste-
ven Kepnes, Text as Th ou: Martin Buber’s Dialogical Hermeneutics and Narrative
Th eology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992) 41 – 60. - For a discussion of the supposed divinity or humanity of the biblical com-
mandments, see Rosenzweig’s essay “Th e Commandments: Divine or Human?,” in
On Jewish Learning, 119 – 24. For a discussion of the problem of the historicity of
the Bible, see Martin Buber, Moses: Th e Revelation and the Covenant (Amherst, NY:
Humanity Books, 1998), 13 – 19. - See the article by the same name, in Buber, On Judaism, 214 – 25.
- For a profound discussion of the deciphering of human literary forms with
a view to releasing theological insight, see Franz Rosenzweig, “Th e Secret of Bibli-
cal Narrative Form,” in Scripture and Translation, 129 – 42. See also my article “Sub-
terranean Didactics: Th eology, Aesthetics and Pedagogy in the Th ought of Franz
Rosenzweig,” Religious Education 94 (1999): 24 – 38. - For a description of the experiences of Creation, Revelation, and Redemp-
tion in everyday life, see Martin Buber, “People Today and the Jewish Bible,” in
Scripture and Translation, 13. - For Rosenzweig’s notion of “absolute empiricism,” see Franz Rosenzweig,
Franz Rosenzweig’s “Th e New Th inking,” ed. and trans. Alan Udoff and Barbara
Galli (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999), 101. - See Julius Guttmann, Philosophies of Judaism, trans. David Silverman (New
York: Schocken Books, 1973), 7 – 10.