Leviticus: Drawing near the other

From: Judaism | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

YOUR LETTER INVITING ME TO RESPOND TO THE TWO essays on Leviticus (Franziska Bark, "`Listen Your Way in With Your Mouth': A Reading of Leviticus" and Bernard Harrison, "The Strangeness of Leviticus") put me in mind of the Buber-Rosenzweig correspondence on the status of the Law in Judaism. Bark and Harrison recall this debate as well both explicitly (Bark) and implicitly (Harrison). Before addressing this matter, however, I note the importance of the epistolary form for such discourses, from the letters of Paul, to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, to the letters of Buber and Rosenzweig. ...

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