Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Judaism and Liberalism -- 1 Spinoza and the Possibility Condition of Modern Judaism -- 2 "Plato Prophesied the Revelation": The Philosophico-Political Theology of Strauss's Philosophy and Law and the Guidance of Hermann Cohen -- 3 What Do the Dead Deserve? Toward a Critique of Jewish "Political Theology" -- 4 The Zionism of Hannah Arendt: 1941-1948 -- Part 2. Messianism, Miracle, and Power -- 5 Power and Israel in Martin Buber's Critique of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology -- 6 The Political Theology of Ethical Monotheism -- 7 The Miraculous Birth of the Given: Reflections on Hannah Arendt and Franz Rosenzweig -- Part 3. Ethics, Law, and The Universal -- 8 Bad Jews, Authentic Jews, Figural Jews: Badiou and the Politics of Exemplarity -- 9 The Patient Political Gesture: Law, Liberalism, and Talmud -- Part 4. The Mosaic Distinction -- 10 Reason within the Bounds of Religion: Assmann, Cohen, and the Possibilities of Monotheism -- 11 The Impossibility of the Prohibition of Images: Idolatry in Adorno, Levinas, and Schoenberg -- 12 From Distortion to Displacement: Freud and the Mosaic Distinction -- 13 Monotheism as a Political Problem: The Critique of Political Theology out of the Sources of Judaism -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.