Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, Series Number 6) - Hardcover

Leaman, Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521417244 ISBN 13: 9780521417242

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

In this study Oliver Leaman poses two questions: how can a powerful and caring deity allow terrible things to happen to obviously innocent people, and why have the Jewish people been so harshly treated throughout history, given their status as the chosen people?

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'An instructive and thought-provoking study, and a fine introduction for the non-specialist to the range of Jewish philosophical reflection.' Rabbi Fred Morgan, The Expository Times

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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 study Oliver Leaman poses two questions: how can a powerful and caring deity allow terrible things to happen to obviously innocent people, and why have the Jewish people been so harshly treated throughout history, given their status as the chosen people? 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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521417244
• ISBN 13: 9780521417242
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 271