ISBN:
0521417244
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 257 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Year of publication:
1995
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in religious traditions 6
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in religious traditions
DDC:
296.3/11
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
;
Het Kwaad
;
Joodse filosofie
;
Lijden
;
Uitverkoren volk
;
Judentum
;
Religion
;
Good and evil Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Jewish philosophy
;
Judaism Doctrines
;
Suffering Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Leid
;
Das Böse
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Leid
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Das Böse
Abstract:
The problems of evil and suffering have been extensively discussed in Jewish philosophy, and much of the discussion has centred on the Book of Job. In this new study Oliver Leaman poses two questions: how can a powerful and caring deity allow terrible things to happen to obviously innocent people, and why has the Jewish people been so harshly treated throughout history, given its status as the chosen people
Abstract:
He explores these issues through an analysis of the views of Philo, Saadya, Maimonides, Gersonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and post-Holocaust thinkers, and suggests that a discussion of evil and suffering is really a discussion about our relationship with God. The Book of Job is thus both the point of departure and the point of return
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/94033186.html
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