ENTo address the question of Levinas' relationship to the Ancients - which certainly entails more than one question - we should be mindful of Levinas' relation to the Greeks and to ancient Jewish thought like that of Philo, who gave us the first exhaustive exploration of the meaning of the name and the letter. Rather than examining Philo, I will turn to a dimension of Jewish thought that has arguably arisen out of prophetism: messianism.