This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era.
In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil.
He traces a flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources, arguing, for example, that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today.
About the Author Jon D.
Levenson is Albert A.
List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
Princeton University Press Creation and the persistence of evil: the jewish drama of divine omnipotence, paperback/jon d. levenson
