Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; 1 On Taking the Bible Seriously Again; 2 On Prophecy and Freedom; 3 On Biblical Thought; 4 Cain and Abel; 5 Rebekah, Isaac, and Jacob; 6 Joseph; 7 Moses in Egypt; 8 Moses at Sinai; 9 The Ten Commandments; 10 David; 11 Solomon; 12 Isaiah; 13 Job; 14 Jesus; 15 The Lord's Prayer; 16 The Nicene Creed; 17 On the Yearning for Personal Immortality; Appendix A Reason and Revelation: On Leo Strauss; Appendix B Reason and Revelation: On Odysseus and Polyphemos; Appendix C On the Status of the Political Order; Appendix D On Being and One's Own.

Appendix E Leo Strauss and Judaism RevisitedAppendix F On Beginnings (with Endnotes); Appendix G Shakespeare's Bible; Appendix H Countdown to the Millennium: A Look at The Revelation of St. John the Divine; Appendix I John Locke and The Reasonableness of Christianity; Appendix J The Holocaust and the Divine Ordering of Human Things; Appendix K Yearnings for the Divine and the Natural Animation of Matter; Endnotes (for Chapters 1-17); Index.

This investigation of biblical experiences and teachings turns around an account of the Ten Commandments. The developments leading up to their promulgation are described and thereafter the consequences of their application in a variety of circumstances (including the Christian developments) are also shown.

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