Part One What about the J Tradition? The Bible and Cuneiform Texts: A Primary Stage of Intertextuality What Do Philosophers Say? First Excursus: The General and the Particular The Garden Raises the Problem of Space and, Subsidiarily, of Evil Homo Faber Home and Exile: Encountering the Other Once More on Production Adam Is Property Tenant; Consumption The Relation with God Work Mechanized Today's "Surplus Value" Entelechy Part Two Introduction A Response to Sigmund Freud On Freud's Theory of Phylogenesis Libido or Aedificatio? Work as Knowledge Work, Knowledge, and Death Second Excursus: Ernest Becker Work and Civilization: Morality and Guilt Work and Worldview Third Excursus: The Commandment Synopsis Part Three For a Dialectical Understanding Peripeteia A Concluding Reflection on Dialectical Work and Creativity The Dialectic Is Dialogical The Enigmatic (Dialectic) Relationship of Israel and Land On Lex Talionis On Divorce On Kashrut Genesis 3 Revisited Rebellion Back to the Tree of Knowledge Postscript: Dialectical Criticism among Other Methodologies
