In a daring hypothesis, turning to ancient Hebrew scriptures as a key of interpretation to the most modern of all events, the Holocaust, the author brings a challenge both to the agnostic secularist as to the religiously-minded that compels a searching appraisal of one's deepest convictions. In this examination of that ultimate tragedy, the issue of God as God is brought courageously to the forefront of our modern consideration as few books have attempted to do. 'We must either forsake entirely our inadequate faith and be abandoned to a worldly cynicism, or be brought into new and unplumbed depths that radically affect - and change - everything.'