Giving Beyond the GiftThis book explores the co dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth century Jewish philosophersCohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas. While all of these thinkers were keenly aware of the pitfalls of scriptural theism, to differing degrees they each succumbed to the temptation to personify transcendence, even as they tried either to circumvent or to restrain it by apophatically purging kataphatic