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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784739603321

Autore

Kraemer David Charles

Titolo

Responses to suffering in classical rabbinic literature / / David Kraemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995

ISBN

0-19-774091-X

1-280-52736-6

0-19-535842-2

1-4294-0591-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Disciplina

296.3/11

Soggetti

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Suffering - Religious aspects - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Canonical Foundation; 3. Other Jews, Other Responses; 4. Early Rabbinic Responses: Mishnah and Avot; 5. Early Rabbinic Responses: The Tosefta; 6. Early Rabbinic Responses: The Halakhic Midrashim; 7. Later Palestinian Documents: The Yerushalmi; 8. Later Palestinian Documents: The Aggadic Midrashim; 9. The Bavli: Canonical Echoes, Intimations of Dissent; 10. The Bavli Rebels; 11. Summary and Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Primary Sources

Sommario/riassunto

The author examines classical Jewish literature to see how Rabbis answered questions arising from the existence of suffering. Responses to events such as the defeat of Palestine by Rome and the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem are shown as relevant to the theological problem of suffering.