Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Reventlow, Henning Graf.
• Hoffman, Yair.

Description

ix, 220 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Subject

• Theodicy
• Good and evil > Christianity
• Good and evil > Judaism

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

ISBN

0826462227 (hbk.)

OCLC

• ocm57371637
• SCSB-5159592

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries