Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Levinas the exorbitant / Kevin Hart -- Levinas between German metaphysics and Christian theology / Leora Batnitzky -- The dis incarnation of the Word : the trace of God in reading Scripture / Rober t Gibbs -- Secrecy, modesty, and the feminine : kabbalistic traces in t he thought of Levinas / Elliott R. Wolfson -- Against theology, or "the devotion of a theology without theodicy" : Levinas on religion / Richa rd A. Cohen -- Is the other my neighbor? : reading Levinas alongside He rmann Cohen / Dana Hollander -- "Love strong as death" : Levinas and He idegger / Jeffrey L. Kosky -- On Levinas's gifts to Christian theology / Robyn Horner -- The prevenience and phenomenality of grace, or, the a nteriority of the posterior / Michael Purcell -- Prolifigacy, parsimony , and the ethics of expenditure in the philosophy of Levinas / Edith Wy schogrod -- Excess and desire : commentary on totality and infinity, se ction I, part D / Jeffrey Bloechl -- The care of the other and substitu tion / Jean-Luc Marion -- Should Jews and Christians fear the gifts of the Greeks? : reflections on Levinas, translation, and atheistic theolo gy / Paul Franks -- Thinking about God andGod-talk with Levinas / Merol d Westphal -- Words of peace and truth : a-dieu, Llevinas / Michael A. Signer.

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