Bücher der Reihe Seminar in the History of Ideas

His account serves as an introduction to some of the concerns and methods of modern biblical scholarship.

Animating Boas's account is his own belief in the importance of the individual's voice-as opposed to the voice of the masses, which is by no means necessarily that of God or reason.

Originally published in 1969. Ideas about Substance is a part of the "e;Seminars in the History of Ideas"e; series at Johns Hopkins University Press.