Commentary

• “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari” by Leo Strauss

  - Leo Strauss, “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari,” Persecution and the Art of Writing, University of Chicago Press, 1988. [Essay originally published in 1943].  
  Leo Strauss’ most significant statement on Judah Halevi, this essay appeared independently in 1943. It subsequently reappeared as a chapter in Strauss’ book Persecution and the Art of Writing. Strauss uses the essay to interpret Halevi as well as… More

• “Religion, Philosophy and Morality: How Leo Strauss Read Judah Halevi’s Kuzari”

  - Kenneth Hart Green, “Religion, Philosophy and Morality: How Leo Strauss Read Judah Halevi’s Kuzari,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 61, No. 2 (1993), pp. 225-273.  
  Excerpt: “IT IS A CURIOUS thing about reading Leo Strauss’s monograph “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari” that one may be misled not only by its method and apparatus but also by the topic and discussion, and believe it to be just… More

• The Law of God by Rémi Brague

  - Brague, Rémi. The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea. Translated by L. G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.  
  Brague’s masterful interpretation of the concept of the “divine law” in intellectual history sheds important light on Halevi. From the Publisher: “The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the tablets at Mount… More