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The Problem of God in Jewish Thought

The Problem of God in Jewish Thought

The Problem of God in Jewish Thought

Jerome Gellman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Joseph (Yossi) Turner, Schechter Institutes, Israel
January 2025
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9781009267106

    The Hebrew Bible contains two quite different divine personae. One is quick to anger and to exact punishment while the other is a compassionate God slow to anger and quick to forgive. One God distant, the other close by. This severe contrast posed a theological challenge for Jewish thought for the ages. This Element follows selected views in rabbinic literature, medieval Jewish philosophy, Jewish mystical thought, the Hasidic movement, modern Jewish theology, response to the Holocaust, and Jewish feminist theology. In the history of Jewish thought there was often a tendency to identify closely with the God of compassion.

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    January 2025
    Paperback
    9781009267106
    70 pages
    230 × 151 × 5 mm
    0.116kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The two faces of god: The Hebrew bible
    • 2. The Rabbinic literature I
    • 3. The Rabbinic literature II
    • 4. Medieval Jewish philosophy
    • 5. The mystical Kabbalah
    • 6. Hasidism
    • 7. Modern Jewish philosophy
    • 8. The holocaust and the god of the Jews
    • 9. Jewish feminist theology
    • Bibliography.
      Author
    • Jerome Gellman , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    • Joseph (Yossi) Turner , Schechter Institutes, Israel