Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Between Philosophy and Theology

1   The Legacy of an Antinomian Messianism within a Jewish Historical Context

2   Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben on the Processes of Messianicity and Canonicity

Part 2 The Radical Hermeneutics of Theology

3   The Violence of the Canon: A Contemporary Context for the Canonical Form

4   The Necessity of Hermeneutics

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index