“There would be perhaps yet another Abraham, not only he who received another name in his old age and, at ninety-nine, at the time of his circumcision, felt, by the blow of a letter, the letter H right in the middle of his name; not only he who, later, on Mount Moriah, was called twice by the angel, first ‘‘Abraham, Abraham,’’ then, a second time still, from the height of the heavens, as Scripture tells us. There would be perhaps not only Abram, then Abraham, Abraham, twice. That there should be yet another Abraham: here, then, is the most threatened Jewish thought, but also the most vertiginously, the most intimately Jewish one that I know to this day. For you have understood me well: when I say “the most Jewish,” I also mean “more than Jewish” Others would perhaps say “otherwise Jewish ” even “other than jewish.”

• J. Derrida