A Phenomenological outlook on the Talmud: Levinas as reader of the Talmud

ENHence my paper will include the following parts: - a brief presentation of the Talmud; - a brief description of the main modes of learning Talmud; - a short presentation of Levinas’ encounter with the Talmud, leading to his Talmudic Readings; - an attempt to describe Levinas’ specificity as reader of the Talmud both intrinsically in what characterizes him and in his relationship to the classical approaches to the Talmud; - finally, three examples from Levinas’ talmudic work selected to illustrate one characteristic feature of his specific mode of reading various sections of the Talmud.

• Filosofija / Philosophy
• Teologija / Theology