Slayers of Moses

Susan A. Handelman , Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, has published articles on literature, critical theory, and Jewish studies.

• AcknowledgmentsMethodological PrefaceNote to the ReaderI. Historical Background: The Interpretive Agon of Greek, Jew, and Christian 1. Greek Philosophy and the Overcoming of the Word Plato and Language: The CratylusAristotle and the Problem of PredicationAristotle: Words and Things, Rhetoric vs. PhilosophyThe Contemporary Critique: Derrida and RicoeurThe Model of Metaphor 2. Rabbinic Thought: The Divinity of the Text The Bible and the GreeksThe TextThe Development of the Oral Law 3. Some Philosophic Aspects of the Rabbinic Interpretative System Kal Ve-ChomerThe Other Twelve Middot: The Relations of General and ParticularMidrashMetaphor and Metonymy in Interpretation 4. Escape from Textuality: The Fulfiller of Signs The Letter and the SpiritPhiloOrigenThe Logos and the LetterUnity, Trinity; Literal, FigurativeAugustineAugustine's Theory of SignsII. The Slayers of Moses: Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Bloom and the Dark Side of Displacement Prologue: The Book of Books and the Book of Nature 5. Solomon-Sigmund, the Son of Jakob Undoing MosesHeretic Hermeneutics: Re-writing OriginsFreud's Methodology: New Arrangements, Hidden GapsThe Hybrid Science 6. The Analyst as Scribe: Jacques Lacan and the Return of the Father's Name 7. Reb Derrida's Scripture Derrida vs. LacanThe Curtained TorahTo Love the Torah More than God 8. The Critic as Kabbalist: Harold Bloom and the Heretic Hermeneutic From the Visionary to the Revisionary CompanyThe Revisionary RatiosThe Revisionary Warfare of Christian ExegesisThe Conflict of Literary Traditions: Genteel Classical versus JudaicAntitheticalSatanic CriticismScholem, Kabbalah, and HeresyRevelation and TraditionThe Theory of Literary Influence and Kabbalistic TerminologyAnalogical Transformation Appendix to Chapter 3: Rabbi Ishmael's RulesGlossaryNotesSelected BibliographyIndex