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Levinas faces biblical figures / edited by Yael Lin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (vii, 219 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739182833
  • 0739182838
  • 130654811X
  • 9781306548113
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Levinas faces biblical figures.DDC classification:
  • 194 23
LOC classification:
  • B2430.L484
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Subjectivity, Hospitality and Exile -- The Meaning of the Abrahamic Adventure in Levinas's Thought -- Welcoming the Other -- Suffering, Justice, and Forgiveness -- Cruel Justice, Responsibility, and Forgiveness -- The Power of Goodness -- Choice and Election -- Ruth -- Jonah: Hero of the Impossible Escape -- The Face, Death, and Responsibility -- Abel's Look -- The Mystery of the Red Heifer -- Judaism, Messianism, and Zionism -- Joseph -- Ladders to Heaven -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: <Span style=""font-style:italic;"">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
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)748847

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.

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Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Subjectivity, Hospitality and Exile -- The Meaning of the Abrahamic Adventure in Levinas's Thought -- Welcoming the Other -- Suffering, Justice, and Forgiveness -- Cruel Justice, Responsibility, and Forgiveness -- The Power of Goodness -- Choice and Election -- Ruth -- Jonah: Hero of the Impossible Escape -- The Face, Death, and Responsibility -- Abel's Look -- The Mystery of the Red Heifer -- Judaism, Messianism, and Zionism -- Joseph -- Ladders to Heaven -- Bibliography -- Index.

<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">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

English.