Title Thinking about good and evil : Jewish views from antiquity to modernity / Rabbi Wayne Allen.

Publication Info.	Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society ; Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
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Description	1 online resource (xxvi, 399 pages).
	text file
Series	JPS essential Judaism
	JPS essential Judaism series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Good and evil in the Bible and apocrypha -- Rabbinic approaches to good and evil -- Good and evil in medieval philosophy -- Kabbalah and the problem of evil -- Hasidic masters on evil and suffering -- Early modern thinkers on good and evil -- Modern thinkers on good and evil -- The special problem of the Shoah
Summary	The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God's role in matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to modernity.
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Subject	Yetzer hara (Judaism)
	Yetzer hara (Judaism)
	Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
	Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Allen, Wayne R. Thinking about good and evil. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society, [2021] 9780827614710 (DLC) 2020034113 (OCoLC)1192304480
ISBN	9780827618664 (ebook)
	0827618662 (ebook)
	9780827618688 (ebook)
	0827618689 (ebook)
	9780827618671 (mobi)
	0827618670 (mobi)
	0827614713 (paperback)
	9780827614710 (paperback)