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14. See Martin Buber, “Th e Words on the Tablets,” in Moses, 119 – 40.


15. Th is quotation and the quotation in the following sentence are from Na-
    hum Glatzer, “Buber as an Interpreter of the Bible,” in Th e Philosophy of Martin Bu-
    ber, ed. Maurice Friedman and Paul Schilpp (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1967), 375.


16. See Rosenzweig’s essay “On Anthropomorphisms,” in Franz Rosenzweig,
    God, Man and the World: Lectures and Essays, trans. and ed. Barbara Galli (Syra-
    cuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998), 135 – 45.


17. Rosenzweig, Star of Redemption, 199.


18. See Franz Rosenzweig, “Th e Secret of Biblical Narrative Form,” in Scripture
    and Translation, 140.


19. See Martin Buber, Th e Kingship of God, trans. Richard Scheimann (London:
    Allen & Unwin, 1967), 94 – 120.


20. For the quotations from the Iliad and from Samuel, see Rosenzweig, “On
    Anthropomorphisms,” 138 – 39.


21. See Michael Fishbane, Garments of Torah (Bloomington: Indiana Univer-
    sity Press, 1989), 97.


22. See Buber, Moses, 139.


23. See ibid., 14.


24. See ibid., 75 – 77.


25. See Rosenzweig, “Scripture and Word,” in Scripture and Translation, 42.


26. See Buber, Kingship of God, 59 – 65.


27. Th e following discussion is based on Rosenzweig, “Secret of Biblical Narra-
    tive Form,” especially on 131 – 40.


28. On the parallel that Rosenzweig creates between Creation and Revelation
    as theological categories, and epic and lyric as aesthetic categories, see Star of Re-
    demption, 188 – 95.


29. See Rosenzweig, Scripture and Translation, 131 – 34.


30. See, for example, Martin Buber, “Leitwort Style in Pentateuch Narrative,” in
    Scripture and Translation, 114 – 28.


31. See Buber, “People Today and the Jewish Bible,” especially 18 – 19.


32. Rosenzweig, “Th e Secret of Biblical Narrative Form,” 136.


33. See Buber, “Leitwort Style in Pentateuch Narrative,” 121.


34. Rosenzweig, “Th e Secret of Biblical Narrative Form,” 137.


35. Ibid., 142.


36. For a penetrating discussion of the structure of the hermeneutics of sus-
    picion, see Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, trans.
    Denis Savage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970), 32 – 36.


37. See Franz Rosenzweig, “Th e Unity of the Bible,” in Scripture and Transla-
    tion, 23.


38. For further elaboration of the distinctions between the hermeneutics of
    “suspicion,” “progress,” “humility,” and “dialogue,” see my article “Hermeneutic