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Is it justice when deities allow righteous human beings to suffer? This question has occupied the minds of theologians and philosophers for many centuries and is still hotly disputed. All kinds of argument have been developed to exonerate the 'good God' of any guilt in this respect. Since Leibniz it has become customary to describe such attempts as 'theodicy', the justification of God. In modern philosophical debate this use of 'theodicy' has been questioned. However, this volume shows that it is still a workable term for a concept that originated much earlier than is commonly realised. Experts from many disciplines follow the emergence of the theodicy problem from ancient Near Eastern texts of the second millennium BCE through biblical literature, from both Old and New Testament, intertestamental writings including Qumran, Philo Judaeus and rabbinic Judaism.
Request Code : ZLIB.IO17656339
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Brill Academic Publishers
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
9004132759
ISBN 13:
9789004132757
ISBN:
9004132759, 9789004132757
Series:
Bilingual Concordance to the Targum of the Prophets

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