Kenneth Hart Green’s Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss by Laurence Berns

In his book on Leo Strauss, Jew and Philosopher..., Kenneth Hart Green has provided the first serious study of the development ofStrauss's thought. Strauss's fundamental thought that revealed theology and philosophy are mutually irrefutable takes the form in Maimonides of a cosmological opposition between creation and eternity. Philosophy's incapacity to refute its revealed counterpart requires recognition of that counterpart as a possibility. Green's Strauss's Maimonides' prophetology articulates human perfection as a reconciliation of reason and revelation, a reconciliation of prophet and philosopher-king.