This volume celebrates the extraordinary work of Daniel Patte. In the last quarter century, Patte stands out as a scholar and teacher instrumental in shaping the character and setting the direction of biblical studies. Author of more than a dozen books and over one hundred articles, Patte is widely known for introducing French structuralist methods into the narrative study of the Bible.

Patte has been a major force in bringing international voices into the American exegetical and theological scene. He has helped raise the consciousness of biblical scholars about their...

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, t

The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together. Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately privileges questions. Bak's pictorial readings invite reconsideration of the Post-Reformation privileging of word over image, and of the Post-Enlightenment privileging of reason over experience. Bak preserves memory of the twentieth century ruination of Jewish life and culture by way of an artistic passion and precision that stubbornly announces...