The problem of evil and its symbols in Jewish and Christian tradition / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reventlow, Henning Graf.

Hoffman, Yair.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 366.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 366

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theodicy.

Good and evil--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Good and evil.

Good and evil--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Physical Description:

ix, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2004.

Contents:

Part I. The Bible. 'Evil' in the Books of Kings / Winfried Thiel

Jeremiah 50-51 and the concept of evil in the Hebrew Bible / Yair Hoffman

The Wrath of God in the Book of Lamentations / Edward L. Greenstein

Evil and its symbols in Psalms 14; 53; 36; 12 / Osnat Singer

The Evil Ones and the Godless: A problem of identity in Biblical Wisdom / Henning Graf Reventlow

The Devil in the Revelation of St. John / Klaus Wengst

Part II. Religious History and Judaism. Evil in the world of religions / Hans-Peter Hasenfratz

Evil and its symbols in the Qumran Scrolls / Bilha Nitzan

The concept of evil and its sanctification in Kabbalistic thought / Yoram Jacobson

Part III. Systematic Questions. Augustine and Luther on Evil / Dietmar Wyrwa

Good and evil in ethics / Christofer Frey

The riddle of evil - the Auschwitz-Question / Christian Link

Evil: a topic for religious education? / Franz-Heinrich Beyer

Part IV. Modern Literature. The question of evil in Israeli Holocaust Fiction / Yochai Oppenheimer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-208) and indexes.

ISBN:

0826462227

OCLC:

57371637