Levinas and Biblical Studies

by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi (Editor), Gary A Phillips (Editor), David Jobling (Editor)

Overview

With one Australian exception, American scholars of religious, Judaic, and biblical studies explore the work of Lithuanian-born French Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1905-95) as it relates to their fields. His own essay "On the Jewish Reading of Scriptures" precedes ten others on such topics as his biblical hermeneutic, facing Job, eschatology, to love Cain more than God, the holocaust, constitution and agency in light of some passages from Ezekiel 1-4, his ethics and the Hebrew Bible, and gender issues. Levinas specialist Catherine Chalier (philosophy, U. of Paris-Nanterre) comments on the essays. There is no index. The Society of Biblical Literature publishes the book and distributes the paperbound edition; Brill distributes the clothbound edition. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589830738
Publisher:	Society of Biblical Literature
Publication date:	08/01/2003
Series:	Semeia Studies , #43
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.16(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Tamara C. Eskenazi, Ph.D. (1986) in Biblical Studies, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver, is Professor of Bible at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Gary A. Phillips, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, is Professor of Religion at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA.
David Jobling, Ph.D. (1972), Union Theological Seminary, New York, is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures (Retired) at St. Andrew's College, Saskatoon, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Facing the Text As Other: Some Implications of Levinas¹s Work for Biblical Studies, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi; On the Jewish Reading of Scriptures, Emmanuel Levinas; The Little Man with the Burned Thighs: Levinas¹s Biblical Hermeneutic, Annette Aronowicz; Creation, Chaos, and the Shoah: A Theological Reading of the Il Y A, Scott Hennessy; Facing Job, Timothy K. Beal; Eschatology: Levinasian Hints in a Preface, Elias Bongmba; To Love Cain More Than God, Jione Havea; Damages Due to Fire: Levinas, the Bible, and the Holocaust, Tod Linafelt; Constitution and Agency in Light of Some Passages from Ezekiel 1-4: A Re-reading of Levinas, Martin C. Srajek; Love Your Neighbor As an Other: Reflections on Levinas¹s Ethics and the Hebrew Bible,
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi; ³And God Created Woman²: Reading the Bible Otherwise,
Susan E. Shapiro; Response, Catherine Chalier.