Levinas faces biblical figures

by Lin, Yael

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Full title :Levinas faces biblical figures / edited by Yael Lin.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Lexington Books
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

Notes

Index: pages 215-219.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 219 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780739182826, 073918282X
oclc:ocn889550766
LC Classification:B2430.L484
Dewey Decimal:194

Introduction: the Bible, ethics and poetics / Yael Lin ; 1. Subjectivity, hospitality and exile. The meaning of the Abrahamic adventure in Levinas's thought / Ephraim Meir ; Welcoming the other: hospitality, subjectivity and otherness in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and the Biblical story, the hospitality of Abraham / Edna Langenthal ; 2. Suffering, justice, and forgiveness. Cruel justice, responsibility, and forgiveness: on Levinas's reading of the Gibeonites* / Gary D. Mole ; The power of goodness: Ritzpah Bat Aiah in the interpreation of Levinas / Elisabeth Goldwyn ; 3. Choice and election. Ruth: the meaning of a conversion / Catherine Chalier ; Jonah: hero of the impossible escape: the Biblical interruption of philosophy in Levinas / Eli Schonfeld ; 4. The face, death, and responsibility. Abel's look: Levinas reads Cain / Michal Ben-Naftali ; The mystery of the red heifer: solved, to nobody's satisfaction / Richard A. Cohen ; 5. Judaism, Messianism, and Zionism. Joseph: the voice from the coffin / Hanoch Ben-Pazi ; Ladders to heaven: Caleb, Levinas and the challenge of the explorers / Tamar Abramov.