Edouard Robberechts (France) is Senior Lecturer of Jewish Philosophy at AixMarseille University since 2003 and former Director of the Interuniversity Institute for Jewish Studies and Culture (IECJ, 2007-2012). His expertise covers the philosophies of Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur. His recent research has led him to investigate the relationship between ethics, religion and politics,and to widen the field of Jewish philosophy (Middle Ages to the present) towards Kabbalah and its history- and more generally, towards the biblical and rabbinic hermeneutics.