Document Type
Article
Date
2010
Keywords
Hagiography, theology, early Christianity
Disciplines
Christianity | Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Description/Abstract
Shame and sanctity are intimately related in ancient "lives" of Jewish sages and Christian ascetics. Infinitely other, saints (from Eliezer to Eulalia) are also infinitely seductive in the audacity of their willful abjection. Drawing desire beyond law, hagiography evokes "not ethics alone," but "le saint, la sainteté du saint" (Levinas).
Recommended Citation
Burrus, Virginia, "A Saint of One’s Own: Emmanuel Levinas, Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, and Eulalia of Mérida" (2010). Religion - All Scholarship. 96.
https://surface.syr.edu/rel/96
Additional Information
Copyright © The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in L’Esprit Créateur, Volume 50, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 6-20.