This brilliant and engaging critical encounter between Jean-Francois Lyotard and Eberhard Gruber has as its focus a single punctuation mark-the hyphen connecting "Jew" and "Christian" in the expression "Judeo-Christian." While focusing on the nature, meaning, and function of this hyphen, the authors are able to analyze many of the essential differences between Judaism and Christianity, as well as the most significant historical and political consequences of these differences from the Roman Empire to the Shoah. Beginning with a reading of the Letters of Paul, they contrast the Jewish and Christian positions on a variety of issues ranging from emancipation, history, sacrifice, incarnation, faith, law, and sexual difference to the value that is accorded reading, writing, and interpretation within these two traditions.
- ISBN10 0391040510
- ISBN13 9780391040519
- Publish Date 12 May 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 1999
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S.
- Imprint Humanities Press International Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 120
- Language English