John Henry Newman once said: "I read the Bible to know what people ought to do, and my newspaper to know what they are doing." Paul Tillich made a similar observation.

We might add a further observation made by Maurice Zundel: "You can understand the Bible only on your knees."

These Stones Will Shout tries to present the Jewish Scriptures in a way that not only remains faithful to them, but in a way, also, that relates them to what people today are doing and thinking.

More importantly, These Stones Will Shout tries to present the Jewish Scriptures in a way that leads to a prayerful reflection of them.

When These Stones Will Shout appeared in 1975, the author said that his method and approach grew out of a classroom teaching situation. The same is true of this revised edition: it represents nine years of classroom experience