Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory Book

	Introduction
1	Power and Constraint: Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton	1
2	Biblical Covenants as Performative Language	27
3	Facing the Other: Levinas, Perelman, and Rosenzweig	47
4	The Difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant	71
5	The Perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning	91
6	The Sign of the Covenant	115
7	Redesigning Redemption: Covenant in The Testament of Moses	131
8	Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe	155
9	Binding and Unbinding: The Summons to Interpretation in The Merchant of Venice	187
10	American Literature's Declaration of In/dependence: Stanley Cavell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Covenant of Consent	211
11	Intertextuality and Reader Responsibility: Living On in Malamud's "The Mourners"	229
12	"The New Covenant" and the Dilemma of Dissensus: Bercovitch, Roth, and Doctorow	251
	Contributors	271