Reading Exodus
by Leon R Kass
Recommended by Ben Shapiro
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Reading Kass feels like following a disciplined scholar who steers close readings of Exodus toward questions of nationhood, law, and communal life. The book’s useful part is sustained, erudite attention to textual detail tied to civic-philosophical reflection, so it’s useful as a serious, text-first conversation about political beginnings. Its main limitation is density: long exegeses, repeated moral judgments, and learned digressions slow momentum and will frustrate readers wanting a brisk, contemporary policy lens.
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In this longawaited followup to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus tells the story of the Jewish people from their ensl...
Difficulty:hard
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Ben Shapiro
“As Jews begin reading the book of Exodus this Shabbat, here's a terrific and worthwhile book on the subject from Leon Kass”
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