Levinas and biblical studies /

Levinas and biblical studies / [print] edited by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Gary A. Phillips, and David Jobling. - Atlanta, Georgia : Society of Biblical Literature, (c)2003. - vii, 214 pages ; 23 cm. - Society of Biblical Literature Semeia studies ; no. 43 . - Semeia studies ; no. 43. .



Introduction. Facing the text as other : some implications of Levinas's work for biblical studies 1. On the Jewish reading of scriptures 2. The little man with the burned thighs : Levinas's biblical hermeneutic 3. Creation, chaos, and the Shoah : a theological reading of the Il Y A 4. Facing Job 5. Eschatology : Levinasian hints in a preface 6. To love Cain more than God 7. Damages due to fire : Levinas, the Bible, and the Holocaust 8. Constitution and agency in light of some passages from Ezekiel 1-4 : a re-reading of Levinas 9. Love your neighbor as an other : reflections on Levinas's ethics and the Hebrew Bible 10. "And God created woman" : reading the Bible otherwise 11. Response Tamara Cohn Eskenazi -- Emmanuel Levinas -- Annette Aronowicz -- Scott Hennessy -- Timothy K. Beal -- Elias Bongmba -- Jione Havea -- Tod Linafelt -- Martin C. Srajek -- Tamara Cohn Eskenazi -- Susan E. Shapiro -- Catherine Chalier.



9781589830738

2003001673


Levinas, Emmanuel.


Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.

BS1186 BS1186.J62.L485 2003