News at Eleven: You don't learn about these detailed realities

of [Primo] Levi's writing from the Cambridge Companion; the contributors' attachment to their own labels is such that they even describe "compassion and forgiveness" as "Christian virtues", a slur on the Hebrew Bible if ever I heard one. For them, an iron curtain has fallen between the "cultural" and the "religious", so they imagine Levi must be a double agent, engaged in "ironic rewriting of divine utterances in secular terms" (they do not mention what the point of his irony is), whereas, in fact, the Scriptures are already written in "secular terms", there being no other terms available even to God, supposing he wishes to speak with his creatures.

from The Times Literary Supplement: Dante, Primo Levi and the intertextualists

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