Levinas and Biblical Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12730-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 216 Seiten, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: SBL - Semeia Studies

The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas writes that each act of listening carries the secret of the text; the voice of Revelation, in precisely the inflection lent by each person's ear, is necessary for the truth of the Whole. Levinas's interpretive insights have already had a profound impact on European thought, both in the realm of ethics and of hermeneutics. This volume is the first in English to show how his contribution can also transform the ways we read biblical texts. The essays collected here introduce Levinas to those not familiar with his work and exemplify how his approach to texts illumines new and significant possibilities for reading the Bible afresh.

Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn

Philips, John Edward

Jobling, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.