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Thinking about good and evil : Jewish views from antiquity to modernity / Rabbi Wayne Allen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: JPS essential Judaism seriesPublisher: Lincoln : Philadelphia : University of Nebraska Press ; The Jewish Publication Society, [2021]Description: xxvi, 399 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780827614710
  • 0827614713
Subject(s):
Contents:
Good and evil in the Bible and apocrypha -- Rabbinic approaches to good and evil -- Good and evil in medieval philosophy -- Kabbalah and the problem of evil -- Hasidic masters on evil and suffering -- Early modern thinkers on good and evil -- Modern thinkers on good and evil -- The special problem of the Shoah
Summary: "The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God's role in matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to modernity"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 296.3118 A432 Available 33111011068083
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

2022 Top Five Reference Book from Academy of Parish Clergy

The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces the most salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God's role in such matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to the present.

Starting with the Bible and Apocrypha, Rabbi Wayne Allen takes us through the Talmud; medieval Jewish philosophers and Jewish mystical sources; the Ba'al Shem Tov and his disciples; early modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Luzzatto; and, finally, modern thinkers such as Cohen, Buber, Kaplan, and Plaskow. Each chapter analyzes individual thinkers' arguments and synthesizes their collective ideas on the nature of good and evil and questions of justice. Allen also exposes vastly divergent Jewish thinking about the Holocaust: traditionalist (e.g., Ehrenreich), revisionist (e.g., Rubenstein, Jonas), and deflective (e.g., Soloveitchik, Wiesel).

Rabbi Allen's engaging, accessible volume illuminates well-known, obscure, and novel Jewish solutions to the problem of good and evil.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God's role in matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to modernity"-- Provided by publisher.

Good and evil in the Bible and apocrypha -- Rabbinic approaches to good and evil -- Good and evil in medieval philosophy -- Kabbalah and the problem of evil -- Hasidic masters on evil and suffering -- Early modern thinkers on good and evil -- Modern thinkers on good and evil -- The special problem of the Shoah

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