Leon R. Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Dean of the Faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem. His books include The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis.
“A wondrous achievement of humanistic scholarship at its very best,
making Exodus’s ancient words live again as a source of political
wisdom and spiritual inspiration for our time.”—Rabbi Lord Jonathan
Sacks
"What Leon Kass describes as living with the book over two decades
enabled him to glean from it insights into the deepest existential
questions, what Kass himself calls 'longings of the soul.' His
greatest achievement is to give readers a glimpse of these insights
and suggest to us the possibility—and profound value—of exploring
them ourselves."— Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of
Jurisprudence, Princeton University
"Leon Kass maps the Book of Exodus with unmatched intelligence. We
have known the book through the interpretations of generations of
sages, but here he reads it as though for the first time
to see the Jewish nation emerging from slavery and taking
its civilizing shape. This is the most exciting book I’ve read in
years"—Ruth Wisse, professor emerita of Yiddish Literature, Harvard
University
"Building on his earlier insightful study of the family in Genesis,
Leon Kass turns to the formation of the Israelite nation in Exodus,
with an openness to discovery sparked by perceptive observations
and guided by fundamental questions."—Ronna Burger, Catherine &
Henry J. Gaisman Professor of Philosophy, Tulane University
“To be guided through Exodus by Leon Kass is to discover in those
familiar stories a font of political wisdom and a provocation to
reflection on the meaning of human flourishing.”—Mary Ann Glendon,
author of A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
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