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          The Bible is a book of questions, not of answers; that the writers knew the full horror of existence, and tried to make sense of it.!

          Scholars cannot read Yehezkel Kaufmann in the original, just as there are too many Israelis who can't grasp the nuances of Isaiah or Ezekiel.

        1. This book is the result of the collaboration of two scholars on a research topic of common interest.
        2. The Bible is a book of questions, not of answers; that the writers knew the full horror of existence, and tried to make sense of it.
        3. Job Y. Jindo teaches Hebrew Bible, Semitic Philology, and Comparative Religion at the Academy for Jewish Religion.
        4. Yehezkel Kaufmann's Toldot ha'Emuna ha-Yisre'lit (published as The Religion of Israel [Chicago: University of Chicago Press,.

          5. Yehezkel Kaufmann

          Israeli academic (1889–1963)

          Yehezkel Kaufmann

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          Born1889

          Ukraine

          Died9 October 1963(1963-10-09) (aged 73–74)
          NationalityIsraeli
          Awards
          Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought (1933, 1956)

          Israel Prize in Jewish Studies (1958)

          Alma materUniversity of Bern
          InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
          Notable worksExile and Estrangement (1930) The Religion of Israel (1960)

          Yehezkel Kaufmann (Hebrew: יחזקאל קויפמן; also: Yeḥezqêl Qâufman; Yeḥezḳel Ḳoyfman; Jehezqël Kaufmann) (1889 – 9 October 1963) was an Israeli philosopher and Biblical scholar associated with the Hebrew University.

          His main contribution to the study of biblical religion was his thesis that Israel's monotheism was not a gradual development from paganism but entirely new.[1]

          Biography

          Yehezkel Kaufmann was born in Ukraine.

          His Talmudic knowledge was acquired at the yeshiva of Rabbi Chaim Tche