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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: Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society ; Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 399 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780827618664
  • 0827618662
  • 9780827618688
  • 0827618689
  • 9780827618671
  • 0827618670
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thinking about good and evil.DDC classification:
  • 296.3/118 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1401 .A45 2021eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2891589

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

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.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed July 19, 2021).