Creation and the Persistence of Evil
The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence
by Jǒn Douglas Levenson
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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.
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Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence
1994, Princeton University Press
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0691029504 9780691029504
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Creation and the persistence of evil: the Jewish drama of divine omnipotence
1988, Harper & Row
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006254845X 9780062548450
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-176) and indexes.
Previously published: 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1988.
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