Reading between the Lines: Form and Content in Levinas’s Talmudic Readings

October 2015 | $25.00 | paper | ISBN: 978-0-8207-0483-8 Reviews: “Goldwyn sets out to demonstrate that Levinas used the Talmud in the same way the Talmudic rabbis used Scripture: to find lessons for one's life. This is a worthy project. . . . Recommended.” — Choice Book Information: Originally published in Hebrew, Reading between the Lines takes up philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's fascinating contributions to Jewish thought, concentrating specifically on his talmudic readings in the context of "contemporary midrash." Herself a scholar and teacher of the Talmud, Elisabeth Goldwyn finds Levinas's approach to study and interpretation to be both bold and original, and here she seeks to examine the importance of his methodology and its relationship to the content he intends to convey. Among his chief aims, Levinas emphasized the philosophical value of talmudic study as a practice to be pursued, with all its ethical and religious meanings; its role in the shaping and rejuvenation of Judaism