Martin Buber’s Myth of Zion

S. Daniel Breslauer is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Kansas University, USA. After completing an undergraduate degree in Near Eastern Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963, he went to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to study to become a Reform Jewish Rabbi. Although he was ordained as a Rabbi in 1969, his interest in academics, history, and the Near East in general led him to study at Brandeis University, USA, where he received an MA and PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. He has published sixteen books and dozens of articles and essays including specialized studies on the Hebrew Bible, Jewish philosophy, contemporary Jewish thinkers, and Postmodern Jewish ethics. He has authored books on Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Mordecai Kaplan. His book on Judaism and Civil Religion (1993) focused on the interplay of religion and political life.