Ancient Jewish and Greek Encouragement and Consolation in Sorrow and Calamity

About the Contributor(s): Claude G. Montefiore (1858-1938) is the classic exemplar of liberal Jewish thought engaging Christian texts. He was greatly influenced by Benjamin Jowett at Oxford. One of the founders of Liberal Judaism in England, Montefiore brought much of the German school of biblical criticism into contact with progressive Judaism.