Livre Brule

Name: Livre Brule
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ISBN: 9780691059204

ISBN-10: 0691059209

ISBN-13: 9780691059204

Edition: 1995

Authors: Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Llewellyn Brown

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In a profound look at what it means for new generations to read and interpret ancient religious texts, rabbi and philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin offers a postmodern reading of the Talmud, one of the first of its kind. Combining traditional learning and contemporary thought, Ouaknin dovetails discussions of spirituality and religious practice with such concepts as deconstruction, intertextuality, undecidability, multiple voicing, and eroticism in the Talmud. On a broader level, he establishes a dialogue between Hebrew tradition and the social sciences, which draws, for example, on the works of Leacute;vinas, Blanchot, and Jabegrave;s as well as Derrida.The Burnt Bookrepresents the innovative…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Talmudic Landmarks



Revelation and Transmission



Transcription



The Talmudic Masters: The Schools



The Post-Talmudic Period



Jurisprudence Derived from the Talmud



Interpretation



Dialogues



Openings First Opening: What Is a Book? or, The Story of an Effacing Translation Remarks on the Translation: Legible and Illegible Commentary



The Two Nunim



The Story of the Nunim



Dots, Coronets, and Letters



The Structure of the Text



An Atopian Text



The Book: The Verse's Beyond



An Open Work



The Talmid Hakham and the Wise Man: Hokhmah and Wisdom



The Book and the "Manual"



Time and Interpretation



Violence and Interpretation Second Opening: Visible and Invisible; or, Eroticism and Transcendence Translation Layout of the Commentary


First Part (A)



Architecture



Visible and Invisible: The Contradiction



Different Modes of Perception of Revelation



The Parokhet: The Text, the "Trace"



New Faces



Confronted with the Text



The "There" and the Name


Second Part (B)



The Structure of the Text



An Erotic Image



Eroticism and Transcendence



Eroticism and Prophecy


Third Part (C)



Invisible Faces



The Double Gaze



Seeing and Death



The Body beyond the Body



The "Burnt Book"


Glossary of Hebrew Words Used in This Work


Bibliography


Index