I. Historical background: the interpretive agon of Greek, Jew, and Christian -- Greek philosophy and the overcoming of the word -- Rabbinic thought: the divinity of the text -- Some philosophic aspects of the Rabbinic interpretative system -- Escape from textuality: the fulfiller of signs -- II. The slayers of Moses: Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Bloom and the dark side of displacement -- Prologue: The book of books and the Book of Nature -- Solomon-Sigmund, the son of Jakob -- The analyst as Scribe: Jacques Lacan and the return of the father's name -- Reb Derrida's scripture -- The critic as Kabbalist: Harold Bloom and the Heretic Hermeneutic
