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contributors Zachary Braiterman is Professor of religion in the department of religion at syracuse university. he is author of The Shape of Revelation: Aesthetics and Modern Jewish Thought and (God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in PostHolocaust Jewish Thought and is co-editor of The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era. Daniel Brandes is assistant Professor of humanities and director of the Foundation year Programme at the university of King’s college. he has published numerous articles and reviews on aspects of hannah arendt’s thought and is currently at work on a book-length study of arendt’s place in modern Jewish philosophy. Brian Britt is Professor in the department of religion and culture at Virginia tech. he works at the intersection of biblical studies and cultural theory on questions of modernity and tradition. his most recent book is Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition. his other books are Walter Benjamin and the Bible; Rewriting Moses: The Narrative Eclipse of the Text; and the edited volume (with alexandra cuffel) Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World. Jerome E. Copulsky is assistant Professor of Philosophy and religion and director of Judaic studies at goucher college. copulsky’s research and writing focus on political theology, civil religion, and modern Jewish thought. his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Salon , New Republic, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Daily Forward, and Religion Dispatches and in such scholarly journals as Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Religion, and Perspectives on Political Science. Oona Eisenstadt is Fred Krinsky chair of Jewish studies at Pomona college. she publishes mainly on the thought of emmanuel Levinas and occasionally about other associated figures. she is author of Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas’s Postmodernism. Robert Erlewine is associate Professor of religion at illinois Wesleyan university . he is author of Monotheism and Tolerance: Recovering a Religion of Reason (iuP, 2010). he is currently managing editor of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy and has published several articles on modern Jewish thought. 346 | Contributors Sarah Hammerschlag teaches at the university of chicago divinity school. she is author of The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought. her research and teaching interests explore the intersection of modern Jewish thought, continental philosophy, and literary studies. she is currently working on a history of Jewish thought in postwar Paris. Dana Hollander is associate Professor in the department of religious studies at mcmaster university, where she is also an associate member of the department of Philosophy and a member of the ma Program in cultural studies and critical Theory. her research areas are recent european philosophy, modern Jewish thought, and german-Jewish studies. she is author of Exemplarity and Chosenness : Rosenzweig and Derrida on the Nation of Philosophy. her current project is on ethics, law, and “the neighbor” in the works of hermann cohen. Eric Jacobson is senior Lecturer in Jewish studies at roehampton university, London. he is author of Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem and co-editor of Weiterwohnlichkeit der Welt: Zur Aktualitaet von Hans Jonas. Gregory Kaplan serves as honorary research Fellow at the university of hong Kong and is founding ceo and President of bridge21 Publications and Professional services, after having taught at rice university. he is author of the forthcoming book Hallowing Days: Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig on Life between the Secular and the Sacred and co-editor of the volumes Disciplining Freud in Religious Studies and Love in the Religions of the World. he is also author of several articles on modern Jewish philosophy. Martin Kavka is the Philip and muriel berman chair in Jewish studies at Lehigh university. his publications include Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy, which was awarded the Jordan schnitzer book award in Philosophy and Jewish Thought by the association for Jewish studies in 2008; Tradition in the Public Square: A David Novak Reader (edited with randi rashkover); Saintly Influence: Edith Wyschogrod and the Possibilities of Philosophy of Religion (edited with eric boynton); and The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era (edited with Zachary braiterman and david novak). he is currently editor (with aline Kalbian) of the Journal of Religious Ethics and is completing a manuscript on the structural problems of covenant theology. Randi Rashkover is associate Professor of religious studies at george mason university. her publications include Freedom and Law: A...