Being in the Face of Nameless Mystery: Levinas and the Trace of Doctrine

Emmanuel Levinas' Methodological Approach to the Jewish Sacred Texts

“…60 Ryan Duns vividly captures the failure of the Said to represent the Saying: 'The radical inability of the Said to express fully the event of the Saying is aptly expressed with the common response ''I know that it's what I Said, but it's not what I Meant!''' 61 Levinas shows that the Saying and the Said have a role in the infinite exegesis of the infinite meanings and readers of the Jewish sacred texts. The elevation of the infinite implied meanings inherent in these texts (which is a Said) owes its height to the transcendence of the reader's interpretation (which is a Saying).…”