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The authors describe the protests of Job, explain the nature of interfaith dialogue, and outline the project for the book.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Julian Baggini, How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (London: Granta Books, 2018).

  2. 2.

    For one such typology, see Robert W. Smid, Methodologies of Comparative Philosophy: The Pragmatic and Process Traditions (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007).

  3. 3.

    Francis Clooney, S.J., Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2010).

  4. 4.

    David B. Burrell, Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

  5. 5.

    Joseph Soloveitchik, “Kol Dodi Dofek”, trans. D. Gordon (NJ: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 2006).

  6. 6.

    Joseph Soloveitchik, Out of the Whirlwind, ed. D. Shatz, J. Wolowelsky and R. Ziegler (NJ: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2003), 157–8.

  7. 7.

    BT Berakhot 5a.

  8. 8.

    Kenneth Seeskin, “Job and the Problem of Evil,” Philosophy and Literature 11, no.2 (1987): 232.

  9. 9.

    See Michael Bergmann, “Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Evil”, in Thomas P. Flint and Michael Rea (eds), Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 375–99, or Trent Dougherty, “Skeptical Theism”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/skeptical-theism/

  10. 10.

    See Paul Draper, “The Limitations of Pure Skeptical Theism”, Res Philosophica 90:1 (January 2013): 97–111.

  11. 11.

    There is an extensive literature on this, but three useful places to follow up: Emran El-Badawi, The Qurʾan and the Aramaic Gospel Tradition (New York: Routledge, 2013); Mohammad-Ali Amir-Moezzi and Guillaume Dye (eds), Coran des historiens (Paris: Cerf, 2018); Gabriel Said Reynolds, The Qurʾan and the Bible: Text and Commentary (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).

  12. 12.

    See Sophia Vasalou, Moral Agents and their Deserts: The Character of Muʿtazilite Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

  13. 13.

    Sophia Vasalou, Ibn Taymiyya’s Theological Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 107–19.

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Davison, S.A., Weiss, S., Rizvi, S. (2022). Introduction. In: The Protests of Job. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95373-7_1

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