TY - JOUR AU - Dal Bo, Federico PY - 2016/06/07 Y2 - 2024/03/19 TI - Between the City of Men and the City of God JF - HannahArendt.net JA - HAnet VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.57773/hanet.v8i1.345 UR - https://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/345 SP - AB - In the present paper I will address Emmanuel Levinas‘long commentary on a relatively short Talmudic passage dedicated on the Biblical institution of the “cities of Refuge,”na­mely asylum cities erected for those who have been cleared by the court for committing murder but were found guilty of manslaughter. Levinas comments on this relatively mar­ginal Biblical institution that is treated at length both in the Palestinian and the Babyloni­an tractate <span class="T17">Makkot</span><span class="T16">—which</span> mostly pertains to “lashes,” namely corporal punishment in­flicted by the whip and, by extension, any other corporal, penal, or monetary punishment in consequence of a specific transgression. ER -