Even in 'normative' Judaism, the opening of interpretatio...

Even in 'normative' Judaism, the opening of interpretation is extraordinary.... The rabbinical word remains ever open, unfulfilled, in process. Yet there is great risk here; this inner dynamic accounts for both the creativity of Judaism and its own inversions and undoing. Where is the line between interpretation and subversion? I have elsewhere called this a 'heretic hermeneutic', which is a complex of identification with the text and its displacement. Jabès's book is precisely this identification with the Sacred Book and its displacement. The Book is now opened to include even its own inversions.

Susan Handelman, The Sin of the Book