Martin D Yaffe is Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at University of North Texas. He is author of Shylock and the Jewish Question and of Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn; editor of Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader; translator of Benedict Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise; co-translator of Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on the Book of Job; and co-editor of Emil Fackenheim--Philosopher, Theologian, Jew: A Collection of Critical Essays, of The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns, and of Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s.