With one Australian exception, American scholars of religious, Judaic, and biblical studies explore the work of Lithuanian-born French Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1905-95) as it relates to their fields. His own essay "On the Jewish Reading of Scriptures" precedes ten others on such topics as his biblical hermeneutic, facing Job, eschatology, to love Cain more than God, the holocaust, constitution and agency in light of some passages from Ezekiel 1-4, his ethics and the Hebrew Bible, and gender issues. Levinas specialist Catherine Chalier (philosophy, U. of Paris-Nanterre) comments on the essays. There is no index. The Society of Biblical Literature publishes the book and distributes the paperbound edition; Brill distributes the clothbound edition. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
