RT Book
T1 Evil and suffering in Jewish philosophy
T2 Cambridge studies in religious traditions
A1 Leaman, Oliver
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1995
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/883360578
AB 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.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BJ1401
SN 9780511585685
K1 Bible : Job : Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
K1 Bible
K1 Good and evil : Religious aspects : Judaism.
K1 Suffering : Religious aspects : Judaism.
K1 Judaism : Doctrines.
K1 Jewish Philosophy
K1 Suffering : Religious aspects : Judaism
K1 Judaism : Doctrines
K1 Good and evil : Religious aspects : Judaism
K1 Bible ; Job ; Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
K1 Good and evil ; Religious aspects ; Judaism
K1 Suffering ; Religious aspects ; Judaism
K1 Judaism ; Doctrines
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511585685