Founder of Liberal Judaism in England, Claude Goldsmid Montefiore (1858 1938) wrote extensively on Jewish and Christian theology and ethics. His final book, published in 1938 and co-edited with Herbert Loewe (1882 1940), remains one of the most comprehensive and authoritative collections available of Rabbinic literature dating from 100 to 500 CE. The edition, which provides extensive historical and lexical context, features two introductions, one from Montefiore espousing a Liberal perspective and the other from Loewe speaking as an Orthodox Jew. Together, they argue for 'a common foundation, a common past, and a common future' linking their outlooks. Their anthology in turn models this co-operation, offering more than 1,600 rabbinical extracts, and covering topics including the nature of God, the Commandments and the Law, prayer and charity. Both a compilation of theological writings and a meditation on theology itself, this work remains a pre-eminent text of Jewish religious scholarship.

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1897. The purpose of these lectures is to give a short history of the religion of the Old Testament. Contents: Origin and Foundation of the Hebrew Religion; The History of the Hebrew Religion Between the Mosaic Age and the Eighth Century B.C.; The Prophets of the Eighth Century B.C.; The Seventh Century: Deuteronomy and Jeremiah (700-586 B.C.); The Babylonian Exile: Ezekial and the Second Isaiah; The Restoration and the Priestly Law; From Nehemiah to the Maccabees: External Influences and Internal Organization; From Nehemiah to the Maccabees: God and Israel; and From Nehemiah to the Maccabees: The Law and Its Influence.