The question to be answered in this paper is why Obadiah ignored any vulnerability on Edom’s side in its depiction as perpetrator. A hermeneutic of vulnerability is based on the ethical moment explored by Levinas’ ...
This paper will explore Manasseh’s vulnerability in both narratives in terms of the current reader’s own vulnerability. The paper will start by looking at the basis for vulnerability in terms of Levinas’ “ethical moment”; ...