A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas 190695 was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinass religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman examines the Pentateuch using a phenomenological approach drawing on both Levinass philosophical and Jewish writings. Sugarman puts Levinas in conversation with biblical commentators both classical and modern including Rashi Maimonides Sforno Hirsch and Soloveitchik. He particularly highlights Levinass work on the Talmud and the Holocaust. Levinass reading is situated against the background of a renewed understanding of such phenomena as covenant promise different modalities of time and justice. The volume is organized to reflect the fiftyfour portions of the Torah read during the Jewish liturgical year. A preface provides an overview of Levinass life approach and place in contemporary Jewish thought. The reader emerges with a deeper understanding of both the Torah and the philosophy of a key Jewish thinker.