Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy / Edition 1

by Oliver Leaman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521427227
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/10/1997
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions , #6
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.82(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

1. Job; 2. Philo; 3. Saadya; 4. Maimonides; 5. Gersonides; 6. Spinoza; 7. Mendelssohn; 8. Cohen; 9. Buber; 10. The Holocaust; 11. Back to the Bible.

Editorial Reviews

"...anyone with the most remote interest in suffering will find this perhaps the most important intellectual investigation on the subject in recent years." Theological Studies

"The topic may be heavy but the writing is anything but cumbersome. A deft survey of the major Jewish thinkers on this nettlesome problem, with special attention to their view of the book of Job." Sh'ma A Journal of Jewish Responsibility

"...anyone with the most remote interest in suffereing will find this perhaps the most important intellectual investigation on the subject in recent years." James F. Keenan, S.J., Theological Studies

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