Max Kadushin, ‘A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta’

Originally published in Conservative Judaism 21:1 (1969), pp. 93-4. A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta, by Max Kadushin, New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1969, 298 pp.; Lauterbach’s edition and translation of the Mekilta De-Rabbi Ishmael, vol. 1, 215 pp., $6.95, paperback $2.95. Max Kadushin’s pioneering work on Rabbinic thinking is well-known to students of the Talmudic…