His occupation with the "Science of Judaism" Zunz found an answer to the problems of transition from the traditional learning and the religious life based on it to modern Western education and the cultural life connected with it. He employed modern research methods to show the community of Israel and its literature as one of the trends in general intellectual life and as a participant in its progress. In so doing he denied several basic values of traditional Judaism, but in their place offered the modern Jew an interest in history. One can discern a definitely negative attitude to the area of the Talmud and the Kabbalah; he considered their spirit as opposed to that of the "Science of Judaism." It is worth noting that among the many subjects in Jewish literature Zunz chose the most "Jewish": the Midrashim and liturgical poetry. As a researcher he was precise and assiduous, demanding scientific perfection. He did not have disciples, but most of the researchers who followed him learned from him even if they did not accept his ideological premises, and his researches served as the foundation and the example for the "Science of Judaism." Not only was the latter not destined to sound the death knell of Hebrew literature, as Zunz had thought in his youth, but it was even to contribute to its revival.