Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence
Paperback
- Price:
- $44.00/拢35.00
- ISBN:
- Published:
- Dec 19, 1994
- Copyright:
- 1995
- Pages:
- 224
- Size:
- 5.5 x 8.5 in.
- Main_subject:
- Religion
This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God’s authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. He traces a flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources, arguing, for example, that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today.
