The protests of Job : an interfaith dialogue / Scott A. Davison, Shira Weiss, Sajjad Rizvi.
2022
BS1415.52
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Title
The protests of Job : an interfaith dialogue / Scott A. Davison, Shira Weiss, Sajjad Rizvi.
ISBN
9783030953737 (electronic bk.)
3030953734 (electronic bk.)
3030953726
9783030953720
3030953734 (electronic bk.)
3030953726
9783030953720
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-030-95373-7 doi
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BS1415.52
Dewey Decimal Classification
223/.106
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Protesting God in Jewish Interpretations of Job
3. Forsaken by God
4. Ineffability, Asymmetry and the Metaphysical Revolt: Some Reflections on the Narrative of Job from Muslim Traditions
5. Reply to Davison and Rizvi
6. Reply to Weiss and Rizvi
7. Reply to Weiss and Davison.
2. Protesting God in Jewish Interpretations of Job
3. Forsaken by God
4. Ineffability, Asymmetry and the Metaphysical Revolt: Some Reflections on the Narrative of Job from Muslim Traditions
5. Reply to Davison and Rizvi
6. Reply to Weiss and Rizvi
7. Reply to Weiss and Davison.