Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews
A Contemporary Jewish Theology
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Academic Studies Press
Published:3rd Dec '19
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That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, “the God of the Jews,” is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the so-called ideological critique, for the traditional believer by recommending replacing the God of the Jews with a different God, a “Jewish God,” one in whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. And the problem of evil is lightened for the traditional believer, mainly by a possible theodicy explaining much evil. The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in broad orientation.
“The attractive thing about this book is its intellectual humility: the author suggests, he does not insist. For anyone interested in Jewish ideas about God, it will prove a stimulating… read.”
— John Barton,Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
“In this third book in his series on Jewish theology in the modern age, Gellman, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University, continues the adaptations of traditional Jewish responses to the questions surrounding Jewish theology. This book deals with the issue of whether God can be fully ‘good’ given the objections to Biblical texts which portray actions by God that are today held to be immoral. … This book is highly recommended mainly for academic libraries with collections that seek to collect books on Jewish theology, philosophy and ethics.”
—Eli Lieberman, Assistant Librarian, Hebrew Union College, AJL Reviews
ISBN: 9781618118387
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202 pages