Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy

Leaman, Oliver

ISBN 10: 0521417244 / ISBN 13: 9780521417242

Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, Cambridge, 1997

About this Item

c. 1997, PB, Fair, Worn, creased, stained covers, page edges and a few pages, labels on covers and spine, highlighting/ink underlining/ink writing on most pages, 257 p. Seller Inventory # 63324

Bibliographic Details

Title: Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy

Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr, Cambridge

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Fair

Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

Book Description:

A variety of controversial themes that preoccupied such great medieval Islamic philosophers as Farabi, Avicenna, Ghazali, Averroes and Maimonides are considered--the creation of the world out of nothing, immortality, resurrection, the nature of ethics, and the relationship between natural and religious law.