Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. Michael B. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French and Philosophy at Berry College, USA.

• For a place in the Bible; the translation of the scripture; contempt for the Torah as idolatry; beyond memory; the nations and the presence of Israel; from ethics to exegesis; Judaism and Kenosis; the Bible and the Greeks; Moses Mendelssohn's thought; a figure and a period; the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig; Judaism and Christianity; on Jewish philosophy; glossary of Hebrew terms.

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. Michael B. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French and Philosophy at Berry College, USA.

• For a place in the Bible; the translation of the scripture; contempt for the Torah as idolatry; beyond memory; the nations and the presence of Israel; from ethics to exegesis; Judaism and Kenosis; the Bible and the Greeks; Moses Mendelssohn's thought; a figure and a period; the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig; Judaism and Christianity; on Jewish philosophy; glossary of Hebrew terms.

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. Michael B. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French and Philosophy at Berry College, USA.

• For a place in the Bible; the translation of the scripture; contempt for the Torah as idolatry; beyond memory; the nations and the presence of Israel; from ethics to exegesis; Judaism and Kenosis; the Bible and the Greeks; Moses Mendelssohn's thought; a figure and a period; the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig; Judaism and Christianity; on Jewish philosophy; glossary of Hebrew terms.