The Star of Redemption is the main work of the philosopher Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929). "The most precise mystical attempt to construct the inconceivable, the Star of Redemption, will only reveal its lasting content to a generation that will no longer feel directly addressed by its most current motives, as was the case for the generation that had just left the First World War at the time of its publication. Only when the enchanting beauty of its language has worn thin and the figure of the martyr, which is inextricably linked to us contemporaries, has retreated into its own aura, can this testimony of God assert itself in its unmasked intention." Gershom Scholem.