Christianity & Judaism

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. A socio-historical analysis of Jewry's fate and existence as a
disaspora-nation community is the two-volume Golah ve-Nekhar ('Exile and Estrangement'), his most outstanding scholarly undertaking. The third
category are topical articles dealing with immediate socio-political problems of Zionism and the emerging State of Israel.

This book comprises three consecutive 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. The basic difference between Judaism and Christianity is here defined as two forms of covenant in conflict with each other.