Derrida’s Bible: (Reading a Page of Scripture with a Little Help from Derrida)

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Derrida’s Bible....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Between Genealogy and Virgin Birth: Origin and Originality in Matthew....Pages 23-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Of Secretaries, Secrets, and Scrolls: Jeremiah 36 and the Irritating Word of God....Pages 39-48
Postcards from the (Canon’s) Edge: The Pastoral Epistles and Derrida’s The Post Card....Pages 49-59
Erasing Amalek: Remembering to Forget with Derrida and Biblical Tradition....Pages 61-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
The Missing/Mystical Messiah: Melchizedek Among the Specters of Genesis 14....Pages 81-97
Jerusalem and Memory: On a Long Parenthesis in Derrida’s Specters of Marx....Pages 99-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Shibboleth and the Ma(r)king of Culture: Judges 12 and the Monolingualism of the Other....Pages 119-134
The Book of Esther: The Making and Unmaking of Jewish Identity....Pages 135-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Triangulating Responsibility: How and Why Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael Offer and Refuse the Gift of Death, and to/from Whom....Pages 151-166
Preferring or not Preferring: Derrida on Bartleby as Kierkegaard’s Abraham....Pages 167-179
Justice as Gift: Thinking Grace with the Help of Derrida....Pages 181-198
Trembling in the Dark: Derrida’s Mysterium Tremendum and the Gospel of Mark....Pages 199-213
Death At The Gate: Who Let Him In?....Pages 215-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
The End of the World: Archive Fever, Qohelet 12:1–7, and Lamentations Rabbah....Pages 231-246
Decomposing Qohelet....Pages 247-259
And Sarah Died....Pages 261-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Pardon Me …....Pages 295-299
Beliebigkeit....Pages 301-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-323