Title: Levinas and biblical studies /
Authors: Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn; Phillips, Gary Allen.; Jobling, David.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel Contributions in biblical studies.; Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Contents: Introduction. Facing the text as other : some implications of Levinas's work for biblical studies / Tamara Cohn Eskenazi -- 1. On the Jewish reading of scriptures / Emmanuel Levinas -- 2. The little man with the burned thighs : Levinas's biblical hermeneutic / Annette Aronowicz -- 3. Creation, chaos, and the Shoah : a theological reading of the Il Y A / Scott Hennessy -- 4. Facing Job / Timothy K. Beal -- 5. Eschatology : Levinasian hints in a preface / Elias Bongmba -- 6. To love Cain more than God / Jione Havea -- 7. Damages due to fire : Levinas, the Bible, and the Holocaust / Tod Linafelt -- 8. Constitution and agency in light of some passages from Ezekiel 1-4 : a re-reading of Levinas / Martin C. Srajek -- 9. Love your neighbor as an other : reflections on Levinas's ethics and the Hebrew Bible / Tamara Cohn Eskenazi -- 10. "And God created woman" : reading the Bible otherwise / Susan E. Shapiro -- 11. Response / Catherine Chalier.