. . . a welcome addition to the literature on Strauss.

Harry V. Jaffa, Philosophy Emeritus, Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School

The contributors to this volume are a diverse lot, indeed, but they share in an uncommon sobriety. Their analyses and meditations on the man, the texts, and the theme will be provocative of further thought and welcome to all but those who believe they have already attained certainty.

Ralph Lerner, University of Chicago

We should be grateful to David Novak for having edited this excellent collection on a Jewish thinker who derserves to be better know among Jews.

Jewish Political Studies Review

Werner J. Dannhauser persuasivley states that the tensions, not the synthesis, between reason and revelation is at the core of Strauss's thought, so that he was a good Jew and a good philospoher as well.

Giovanni Giorgini, University of Bologna, Political Studies Review

This volume is a worthy addition to the growing literature meant to include Strauss within the canon of modern Jewish thought. It offers a wide spectrum of approaches to Strauss's writings on religion. An excellent introduction to Strauss... a variety of viewpoints...

Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Religious Studies Review

. . . admirably edited . . . engaging . . .

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