Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

Introduction: Athens and Jerusalem

Socrates and the reason of Judaism: Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant

Noah and Noesis: Greeks, Jews, and the Hegelian dialectic

Matthew Arnold in Zion: Hebrews, Hellenes, Aryans, and Semites

Greeks, Jews, and the death of God: Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche

Moses on the Acropolis: Sigmund Freud.

List of Figures; Note on Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Athens and Jerusalem; 1. Socrates and the Reason of Judaism: Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant; 2. Noah and Noesis: Greeks, Jews, and the Hegelian Dialectic; 3. Matthew Arnold in Zion: Hebrews, Hellenes, Aryans, and Semites; 4. Greeks, Jews, and the Death of God: Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche; 5. Moses on the Acropolis: Sigmund Freud; Epilogue: "Metaphors we live by . . ."; Works Cited; Index.