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Evil and suffering in Jewish philosophy /
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 w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in religious traditions ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511003870 9780511003875 9780521427227 0521427223 9780521417242 0521417244 0511880715 9780511880711 0511585683 9780511585685 |