Levinas faces biblical figures / edited by Yael Lin.
Contributor(s): Lin, Yael [editor.]
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TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: vii, 219 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780739182826; 073918282XSubject(s): Le¿¿vinas, Emmanuel | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 194 LOC classification: B2430.L484 | L477 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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"This book originated in a conference at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, on 28-29 December 2010."--Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
Introduction: the Bible, ethics and poetics / Yael Lin -- 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 -- Cruel justice, responsibility, and forgiveness: on Levinas's reading of the Gibeonites* / Gary D. Mole -- The power of goodness: Ritzpah Bat Aiah in the interpretation of Levinas / Elisabeth Goldwyn -- Ruth: the meaning of a conversion / Catherine Chalier -- Jonah: hero of the impossible escape: the Biblical interruption of philosophy in Levinas / Eli Schonfeld -- Abel's look: Levinas reads Cain / Michal Ben-Naftali -- The mystery of the red heifer: solved, to nobody's satisfaction / Richard A. Cohen -- Joseph: the voice from the coffin / Hanoch Ben-Pazi -- Ladders to heaven: Caleb, Levinas and the challenge of the explorers / Tamar Abramov.