@article{1446739,
      recid = {1446739},
      author = {Davison, Scott A. and Weiss, Shira, and Rizvi, Sajjad H.},
      title = {The protests of Job : an interfaith dialogue /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      note = {Includes indexes.},
      abstract = {This book explores the protests of Job from the  perspectives of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious  and philosophical traditions. Shira Weiss examines how  challenges to divine justice are understood from a Jewish  theological perspective, including the pro-protest and  anti-protest traditions within rabbinic literature, in an  effort to explicate the ambiguous biblical text and  Judaisms attitude towards the suffering of the righteous.  Scott Davison surveys Christian interpretations of the book  of Job and the nature of suffering in general before  turning to a comparison of the lamentations of Jesus and  Job, with special attention to the question of whether  complaints against God can be expressions of faith. Sajjad  Rizvi presents the systematic ambiguity of being present in  monistic approaches to reality as one response to evil and  suffering in Islam, along with approaches that attempt a  resolution through the essential erotic nature of the  cosmos, and explores the suggestion that Job is the hero of  a metaphysical revolt that is the true sign of a friend of  God. Each author also provides a response essay to the  essays of the other two authors, creating an interfaith  dialogue around the problem of evil and the idea of protest  against the divine. Scott A. Davison is Professor of  Philosophy at Morehead State University, USA. Shira Weiss  teaches Jewish Thought and is Asst. Director of the  Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership at  Yeshiva University, USA. Sajjad Rizvi is Professor of  Islamic Intellectual History and Director of the Institute  of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter,  UK.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446739},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95373-7},
}