The burnt book : reading the Talmud

Preface Acknowledgments BOOK ONE: TALMUDIC LANDMARKS I. Revelation and Transmission II. Transcription III. The Talmudic Masters: The Schools IV. The Post-Talmudic Period V. Jurisprudence Derived from the Talmud VI. Interpretation VII. Dialogues BOOK TWO: OPENINGS First Opening: What Is a Book? or, The Story of an Effacing Translation Remarks on the Translation: Legible and Illegible Commentary I. The Two Nunim II. The Story of the Nunim III. Dots, Coronets, and Letters IV. The Structure of the Text V. An Atopian Text VI. The Book: The Verse's Beyond VII. An Open Work VIII. The Talmid Hakham and the Wise Man: Hokhmah and Wisdom IX. The Book and the "Manual" X. Time and Interpretation XI. Violence and Interpretation Second Opening: Visible and Invisible; or, Eroticism and Transcendence Translation Layout of the Commentary FIRST PART (A) I. Architecture II. Visible and Invisible: The Contradiction III. Different Modes of Perception of Revelation IV. The Parokhet: The Text, the "Trace" V. New Faces VI. Confronted with the Text VII. The "There" and the Name SECOND PART (B) I. The Structure of the Text II. An Erotic Image III. Eroticism and Transcendence IV. Eroticism and Prophecy THIRD PART (C) I. Invisible Faces II. The Double Gaze III. Seeing and Death IV. The Body beyond the Body BOOK THREE: THE "BURNT BOOK" Glossary of Hebrew Words Used in This Work Bibliography Index