“Luke’s complex portrayal of ‘the Jews’ in general, and of the Pharisees in particular, reflects a situation in which the lines between Judaism and Christianity were not yet clearly drawn.”

One important area of Levinas’s Jewish thought consists in his Talmudic read~ ings. Over the coUrse of many years, he developed an approach to the reading of Talmud that relies, implicitly and explicitly, on various hermeneutical principles. A fundamental characteristic of rabbinic reading, according to Levinas, is “ex~ creme attention to the…[Read more]