Christianity and Judaism: Two Covenants

This book comprises three successive chapters from Yehezkel Kaufman's Golah ve-Nekhar which, though intrinsically related to the central topic of that work, constitute a distinct unit of its own. These three chapters represent a broad attempt by the author to answer the question as to why, having spread to almost all peoples around the world, Christianity was not was able to anchor itself among the Jews? Why all those Jews that have become Christians, have also eventually disappeared from the rolls of the Jewish people? The writings of Yehezkel Kaufmann (1889-1963), late Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, fall into three main categories: Bible studies, of which the four-volume History of the Religion of Israel is the magnum opus; socio-historical analysis of Jewry's fate and existence as a diaspora-nation community, with the two-volume Gold ve-Nekhar (Exile and Estrangement) being its most outstanding scholarly undertaking in this regard; finally topical articles dealing with immediate socio-political problems of Zionism and the emerging State of Israel.