Abstract
Following 'Reading Edmond Jabes', (Literature and Theology, 1995) this second article exercises a secular homiletics to examine Jabes writing on the book (ecriture) and the Book (Ecriture) as authoritative absence, the authority of the question and the blank page as desert. In his writing, remaining true to what is not (that is, God), Jabes dreams with the kabbalists of'an absolute book' of perfect readability, to the absolute absence of which poetics can only begin to allude in the sacred duty of writing. The book remains a mystery and an indefatigable deciphering of the
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