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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    24 October 2009
    08 June 1995
    ISBN:
    9780511585685
    9780521427227
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585685
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.355kg, 272 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Judaism, Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions (6)
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    Subjects:
    Judaism, Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions (6)
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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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    ‘An instructive and thought-provoking study, and a fine introduction for the non-specialist to the range of Jewish philosophical reflection.’

    Rabbi Fred Morgan Source: The Expository Times

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