Pious Irreverence : : Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism / / Dov Weiss.
Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first expressed in the biblical stories of Abraham, Job, and Jeremiah. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the fi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Manuscripts, Critical Editions, and Translations Used in the Text
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Confrontation as Sin
- Chapter 2. From Sin to Virtue
- Chapter 3. Varieties of Confrontation
- Chapter 4. Confrontation as Ethics
- Chapter 5. The Humanization of God
- Chapter 6. Divine Concessions
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments