Providence In The Book Of Job: The Search For God's Mind - Couverture rigide

Pfeffer, Jeremy I.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845190645 ISBN 13 : 9781845190644

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Of all the inventions of man's imagination, none transcends his primal belief in the existence of invisible forces which shape a person's destiny, often in ways that make a mockery of his own efforts to do so. And of all these arcane powers, none is more enigmatic than the Divine Providence which underlies the belief in ethical monotheism. Just why does God allow bad things to happen to good or innocent people? The traditional Jewish context for such investigations was biblical exegesis, in particular the interpretation and elucidation of the Book of Job. Over twenty medieval Hebrew commentaries on the Book of Job have survived to the present day and it is the ideas concerning Providence expressed in these works that form the central core of this study. The final chapter brings the issue closer to our own times through discussion of the Scientific Revolution and the search for God's Mind -- moving away from the sphere of theological speculation to that of mathematical physics.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeremy I. Pfeffer teaches physics at the Rehovot campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A graduate of Imperial College in London and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he has taught science in high schools in England and Israel., and has written and published textbooks on Modern Physics in both English and Hebrew.. The present book is the result of a private study that has stretched intermittently over the last twenty five years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845190645
• ISBN 13: 9781845190644
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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