Levinas Faces Biblical Figures

Informationen zum Autor Yael Lin teaches at Ben-Gurion University and Achva Academic College and is the pedagogical consultant for the Department of Learning Technologies at Ben-Gurion University. Klappentext Levinas Faces Biblical Figures captures the drama of the encounter between a great philosopher and a text of primary importance. The book considers the ways in which Levinas's thoughts can open up the biblical text to requestioning, and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas. Zusammenfassung Levinas Faces Biblical Figures captures the drama of the encounter between a great philosopher and a text of primary importance. The book considers the ways in which Levinas's thoughts can open up the biblical text to requestioning! and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 - Rizpah Bat Aya in the Interpretation 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 ...

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• Authors: Yael Lin
• Assisted by: Yael Lin (Editor), Lin Yael (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9780739182826
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8282-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, RELIGION / Judaism / History, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, RELIGION / Biblical Biography / Old Testament, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, Social groups, Judaism, Biography: religious & spiritual, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy of religion, Biography: religious and spiritual, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Jewish texts: Tanakh, Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim, Aesthetics;Literature;and the Arts, Aesthetics; Literature; and the Arts