During the German "Kulturkampf" in the 1870s; the Frankfurt rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch enjoined all Jews of his community to exercise a right given by Prussian law: to withdraw from the united community which was dominated by Reform forces in order to belong only to a separate Orthodox community; founded according to Jewish law (Halakha). This work investigates the significance of these events for Orthodox Judaism in the 20th century. Focussing on the philosophy of Isaac Breuer; the grandson of Hirsch; Frankfurt attorney; novelist and co-founder of the Orthodox world movement Agudat Israel; this book describes the dilemmas of observant Jewry vis-a-vis the secularist Zionist movement. It shows the genesis modern Jewish Orthodoxy and helps to understand its activities; in a new "Kulturkampf;" in the state of Israel until today.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Jury Decides in Favor of Dr. MollerBy Ronald W. SatzThis work is remarkable in the depth of research conducted by Dr. Moller; a medical scientist with a side interest in archeology; scuba diving; photography; and the Bible. Moller's scientific hypothesis is that Exodus is a travel log written by Moses. Moller visited all the sites discussed in Genesis; as well as Exodus; and was able to identify the locations of many ancient events. Ur is actually Urfa and is located in Turkey; rather than Iraq or Sumer. The crossing point for the Exodus was at the Gulf of Aqaba; not the Gulf of Suez or some lake. Midian is to the east of Aqaba; and that's where Moses was a shepherd for 40 years before taking the Israelites out of Egypt--back to Midian. Mount Sinai is in Midian; not in the Sinai Peninsula. Moller has collected numerous ancient maps and has shown how all the events and locations are correlated with the biblical text. Amenhotep III was the pharaoh during the Exodus; his son; Tut; died in the last plague. So Moller dates the Exodus to 1446 BCE. (Note: Moller uses BC and AD; when he should; as a scholar; use BCE and CE; but that's a minor nitpick.) Moller also shows that Joseph can be identified as Imhotep; and Moses can be identified as Senmut; an Egyptian general! All in all; this work is an extraordinary read; and I can heartily recommend this it to everyone!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 2.5 starsBy chayahReviewing the Kindle edition.I use Kindle for PC and was about to return the book after a few minutes.Many reviews are raving about the photographs. Likely those people have the printed edition because in Kindle for PC the pictures are extremely small and totally useless.Luckily I tried on Amzon cloudreader an with selecting a tiny fontsize and then zooming in a lot the pictures were big and good. This trick doesn't work with the Kindle app.No raving review from me about the pictures because they can be grouped as follows.60% are page fillers without any real use.40% are useful. Well could be useful....Some pictures/diagrams are good and useful. But most maps arent because things are missing from them. Example the text discusses where Abraham and his ancestors orginated from. The included map includes a few red and green dots. No exaplantion what red or green means. And no placenames next to the dots. Because that's far from rare the numbers are: Only 20% of all pictures/maps/diagrams in this book are of any use.While the book presents interesting material a large part isn't Exodus related at all. It's still interesting stuff but I disagree with the author the information is required for understand the part that's really about the Exodus. That makes it very hard for me to rate this book? Should I rate just what's in it or should I rate what I bought the book for?As said the book contains interesting views. The author starts his book with exmplaing he's a scientist and will take a scientific approach. Well he doesn't. Far from it. Yeah he includes some quotes and mentions some publications; but he *fails* to really explain why he concludes something. As an example; it's no secret that it's highly debated who the Exodus phraoh was. So many different views. All based on the same reference works. What's really missing is that the author explains what's wrong about the other views. Or why he concludes some things.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Controversial but Fair look at one era of Biblical ArchaelogyBy J. L. JohnsonVery good at explaining some controversial points of view and sometimes showing more than one interpretation of archaelogical findings. It is a thoughtful challenge of established thought on such things as where the Israelites crossed the red sea and where Mt. Sinai is located. I gave it four stars because some of the ideas in the book are a stretch. There were two historical individuals mentioned in Egyptian history that could have been Joseph but this book forwards only one. There are also two or three individuals in Egyptian history that could have been Moses too; one is more favorably presented than the others. Otherwise a scholarly presentation and well worth the read.
