| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction: A Passion for the Impossible | |
| A Map for the Perplexed | |
| I | The Apophatic | 1 |
| 1 | God Is Not differance | 1 |
| 2 | Dreaming the Impossible Dream: Derrida and Levinas on the Impossible | 20 |
| 3 | Affirmation at the Limits: How Not to Speak | 26 |
| 4 | Save the Name, Wholly Other: Toward a General Apophatics | 41 |
| Edifying Divertissement No. 1. Bedeviling Faith | 57 |
| II | The Apocalyptic | 69 |
| 5 | Viens! | 69 |
| 6 | Messianic Time: Derrida and Blanchot | 77 |
| 7 | An Apocalypse sans Apocalypse to Jacques of El Biar | 88 |
| 8 | The Secret | 101 |
| Edifying Divertissement No. 2. From Elea to Elohim: The God of the Same, the God of the Other | 113 |
| III | The Messianic | 117 |
| 9 | Of Marx and the Messiah | 118 |
| 10 | Messianic Passion and the Religion of Saint Jacques | 134 |
| 11 | Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Almost) | 151 |
| IV | The Gift | 160 |
| 12 | The Time of Giving and Forgiving | 161 |
| Edifying Divertissement No. 3. Traditions and the World-Play | 181 |
| 13 | Abraham's Gift | 188 |
| 14 | Abraham and the Pharisees | 212 |
| Edifying Divertissement No. 4. Deconstruction and the Kingdom of God | 222 |
| V | Circumcision | 230 |
| 15 | Hegel and the Jews | 230 |
| Edifying Divertissement No. 5. Deferring Incarnation - and Jesus the Jew | 243 |
| 16 | Circumcision | 250 |
| 17 | Is Deconstruction Really a Jewish Science? | 263 |
| VI | Confession | 281 |
| 18 | The Son of These Tears: The Confession of Jacques de la rue Saint-Augustin | 281 |
| Edifying Divertissement No. 6. A Prayer | 308 |
| 19 | These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears: The Faith of Jacques Derrida | 308 |
| Conclusion: A Passion for God | 331 |
| Notes | 340 |
| Select Bibliography on Derrida and Religion | 371 |
| Index | 375 |
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