AbbreviationsForeword to the Confessional Perspectives SeriesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Ch. 1The European Background15Ch. 2American Beginnings33Ch. 3Between the Wars69Ch. 4The Second Wave89Ch. 5The Current Scene115Ch. 6Translations, Collaborations and Compendia149Ch. 7On the Periphery: North American Orthodox Judaism and Contemporary Biblical Scholarship159Concluding Extremely Unscientific Postscript205