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Kraemer, David

 
9780195089004: Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature
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ISBN 10 : 0195089006 ISBN 13 : 9780195089004
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1994

Synopsis

The existence of suffering poses an obvious problem for the monotheistic religions. Why does an all-powerful, benevolent God allow humans to suffer? And given that God does, what is the appropriate human response? In modern times Jewish theologians in particular, faced with the enormity of the Holocaust, have struggled to come to grips with these issues. In Responses to Suffering, David Kraemer offers the first comprehensive history of teachings related to suffering in classical rabbinic literature. Beginning with the Mishnah (c. 200 CE), Kraemer examines traditions on suffering, divine justice, national catastrophe, and the like, in all major rabbinic works of late antiquity. Bringing to bear recent methods in the history of religions, literary criticism, canonical criticism, and the sociology of religion, Kraemer offers a rich analysis of the development of attitudes that are central to and remain contemporary concerns of any religious society.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The existence of suffering poses an obvious problem for the monotheistic religions. Why does an all-powerful, benevolent God allow humans to suffer? And given that God does, what is the appropriate human response? In modern times Jewish theologians in particular, faced with the enormity of the Holocaust, have struggled to come to grips with these issues. In Responses to Suffering, David Kraemer offers the first comprehensive history of teachings related to suffering in classical rabbinic literature. Beginning with the Mishnah (c. 200 CE), Kraemer examines traditions on suffering, divine justice, national catastrophe, and the like, in all major rabbinic works of late antiquity. Bringing to bear recent methods in the history of religions, literary criticism, canonical criticism, and the sociology of religion, Kraemer offers a rich analysis of the development of attitudes that are central to and remain contemporary concerns of any religious society.

Revue de presse

One of the very best encapsulations of the way Judaism has wrestled with the challenge of suffering that I have ever read, and it deserves to be commended to the widest possible audience ... it is extremely approachable and is undoubtedly a source book that will lend itself to a wide variety of usages. (Expository Times)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195089006
ISBN 13 
9780195089004
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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