Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature

by David Kraemer

The existence of suffering poses an obvious problem for the monotheistic religions. Why does an all-powerful, benevolent God allow humans to suffer? And given that God does, what is the appropriate human response? In modern times Jewish theologians in particular, faced with the enormity of the Holocaust, have struggled to come to grips with these issues. In Responses to Suffering, David Kraemer offers the first comprehensive history of teachings related...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195089006
• ISBN13: 9780195089004
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"