Thinking about good and evil : Jewish views from antiquity to modernity
Allen, Wayne.
Thinking about good and evil : Jewish views from antiquity to modernity Rabbi Wayne Allen - 1st ed. - Lincoln : Jewish Publication Society, 2021. ©2021. - 1 online resource (429 pages) - JPS essential Judaism . - JPS essential Judaism .
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- In This Book -- Understanding Theodicy -- Judaism's Challenges in Addressing Theodicy -- "That Sore That Will Never Heal" -- 1. Good and Evil in the Bible and Apocrypha -- Genesis: The Creation Epic -- Genesis: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil -- Genesis: Cain and Abel -- Genesis: Abraham's Intercession on Behalf of Sodom and the Binding of Isaac -- Deuteronomy: The Choice of Good or Evil -- The Prophets -- The Book of Psalms -- The Book of Proverbs -- The Book of Job -- The Book of Ecclesiastes -- The Book of Daniel -- The Apocrypha -- The Book of Enoch -- Summary -- 2. Rabbinic Approaches to Good and Evil -- Thirteen Rabbinic Approaches to Theodicy -- Refine Definitions -- Resort to the Inexplicability Factor -- Propose the "Chastisements of Love" -- Assume Astral Influence -- Compensate Injustice in the Afterlife -- Ascribe Evils to the Trials of the Righteous -- Assert the Usefulness of the Continued Existence of the Wicked -- See Early Death as a Benefit to the Righteous -- Claim That Prior Assumptions Are No Longer in Force -- Interpret the Suffering of the Righteous as Vicarious Atonement -- Recognize Evil as a Universal and Regular Phenomenon -- Apply the Concept of "God's Wrath" to Explain Suffering -- Be Resigned to the Inevitability of Injustice -- The Evil Inclination -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Philo -- Summary -- 3. Good and Evil in Medieval Philosophy -- Sa'adiah -- Baḥya -- Abraham ibn Daud -- Maimonides -- Gersonides -- Crescas -- Albo -- Yosef Ya'avetz -- Summary -- 4. Kabbalah and the Problem of Evil -- Sefer Yetzirah -- Rabbi Yitzḥak ben Ya'akov ha-Kohen, Sagi Nahor (the Blind) -- Sefer ha-Bahir -- Zohar -- Rabbi Isaac Luria -- Summary -- 5. Hasidic Masters on Evil and Suffering -- What Is Perceived as Evil Is in Fact Good. There Is Good in Evil -- Evil Does Not Exist -- Evil Induces Holiness -- Good Is Appreciated Only in Contrast with Evil -- Evil Allows for the Attainment of Good -- Evildoers Persist as Good Examples -- On Personal Suffering -- The Suffering of the Collective -- Summary -- 6. Early Modern Thinkers on Good and Evil -- Barukh Spinoza -- Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto -- Moses Mendelssohn -- Summary -- 7. Modern Thinkers on Good and Evil -- Hermann Cohen -- Samuel Alexander -- Martin Buber -- Mordecai Kaplan -- Hannah Arendt -- Eugene Borowitz -- Neil Gillman -- Harold Kushner -- Martha Nussbaum -- Judith Plaskow -- Summary -- 8. The Special Problem of the Shoah -- Holocaust, Shoah, Ḥurban? -- Exceptionality -- Theological Responses to Exceptionality -- Theological Traditionalists -- Kalonymus Kalman Shapira -- Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich -- Ḥayyim Yisrael Tsimerman -- Eliezer Berkovits -- Evaluation of the Theological Traditionalists -- Radical Revisionists -- Richard Rubenstein -- Alexander Donat -- Arthur Cohen -- Hans Jonas -- Evaluation of the Radical Revisionists -- Deflectors -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Joseph Soloveitchik -- Emil Fackenheim -- Robert Gordis -- Emmanuel Levinas -- Jonathan Sacks -- Elie Wiesel -- Evaluation of the Deflectors -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Thirty-Five Jewish Answers to Why There Is Evil in the World -- Twenty-Two Reasons Why You Are Suffering -- Jewish Matters of Teiku (Unresolved) -- The Virtues of Uncertainty -- Wherein a Possible Solution May Lie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Texts.
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.
9780827618664
Bibel. Altes Testament
Jüdische Theologie
Rabbinismus
Jüdische Philosophie
Das Gute
Das Böse
Yetzer hara (Judaism). Good and evil
Fernzugriff
Thinking about good and evil : Jewish views from antiquity to modernity Rabbi Wayne Allen - 1st ed. - Lincoln : Jewish Publication Society, 2021. ©2021. - 1 online resource (429 pages) - JPS essential Judaism . - JPS essential Judaism .
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- In This Book -- Understanding Theodicy -- Judaism's Challenges in Addressing Theodicy -- "That Sore That Will Never Heal" -- 1. Good and Evil in the Bible and Apocrypha -- Genesis: The Creation Epic -- Genesis: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil -- Genesis: Cain and Abel -- Genesis: Abraham's Intercession on Behalf of Sodom and the Binding of Isaac -- Deuteronomy: The Choice of Good or Evil -- The Prophets -- The Book of Psalms -- The Book of Proverbs -- The Book of Job -- The Book of Ecclesiastes -- The Book of Daniel -- The Apocrypha -- The Book of Enoch -- Summary -- 2. Rabbinic Approaches to Good and Evil -- Thirteen Rabbinic Approaches to Theodicy -- Refine Definitions -- Resort to the Inexplicability Factor -- Propose the "Chastisements of Love" -- Assume Astral Influence -- Compensate Injustice in the Afterlife -- Ascribe Evils to the Trials of the Righteous -- Assert the Usefulness of the Continued Existence of the Wicked -- See Early Death as a Benefit to the Righteous -- Claim That Prior Assumptions Are No Longer in Force -- Interpret the Suffering of the Righteous as Vicarious Atonement -- Recognize Evil as a Universal and Regular Phenomenon -- Apply the Concept of "God's Wrath" to Explain Suffering -- Be Resigned to the Inevitability of Injustice -- The Evil Inclination -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Philo -- Summary -- 3. Good and Evil in Medieval Philosophy -- Sa'adiah -- Baḥya -- Abraham ibn Daud -- Maimonides -- Gersonides -- Crescas -- Albo -- Yosef Ya'avetz -- Summary -- 4. Kabbalah and the Problem of Evil -- Sefer Yetzirah -- Rabbi Yitzḥak ben Ya'akov ha-Kohen, Sagi Nahor (the Blind) -- Sefer ha-Bahir -- Zohar -- Rabbi Isaac Luria -- Summary -- 5. Hasidic Masters on Evil and Suffering -- What Is Perceived as Evil Is in Fact Good. There Is Good in Evil -- Evil Does Not Exist -- Evil Induces Holiness -- Good Is Appreciated Only in Contrast with Evil -- Evil Allows for the Attainment of Good -- Evildoers Persist as Good Examples -- On Personal Suffering -- The Suffering of the Collective -- Summary -- 6. Early Modern Thinkers on Good and Evil -- Barukh Spinoza -- Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto -- Moses Mendelssohn -- Summary -- 7. Modern Thinkers on Good and Evil -- Hermann Cohen -- Samuel Alexander -- Martin Buber -- Mordecai Kaplan -- Hannah Arendt -- Eugene Borowitz -- Neil Gillman -- Harold Kushner -- Martha Nussbaum -- Judith Plaskow -- Summary -- 8. The Special Problem of the Shoah -- Holocaust, Shoah, Ḥurban? -- Exceptionality -- Theological Responses to Exceptionality -- Theological Traditionalists -- Kalonymus Kalman Shapira -- Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich -- Ḥayyim Yisrael Tsimerman -- Eliezer Berkovits -- Evaluation of the Theological Traditionalists -- Radical Revisionists -- Richard Rubenstein -- Alexander Donat -- Arthur Cohen -- Hans Jonas -- Evaluation of the Radical Revisionists -- Deflectors -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Joseph Soloveitchik -- Emil Fackenheim -- Robert Gordis -- Emmanuel Levinas -- Jonathan Sacks -- Elie Wiesel -- Evaluation of the Deflectors -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Thirty-Five Jewish Answers to Why There Is Evil in the World -- Twenty-Two Reasons Why You Are Suffering -- Jewish Matters of Teiku (Unresolved) -- The Virtues of Uncertainty -- Wherein a Possible Solution May Lie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Texts.
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.
9780827618664
Bibel. Altes Testament
Jüdische Theologie
Rabbinismus
Jüdische Philosophie
Das Gute
Das Böse
Yetzer hara (Judaism). Good and evil
Fernzugriff