A Terrible Vengeance
A01=Jon D. Levenson
Abomination (Bible)
Aggadah
Akitu
Amalek
and Abednego
Anthropomorphism
Apocalypticism
Apotheosis
Author_Jon D. Levenson
Blasphemy
Cataclysm (Dragonlance)
Category=QRJ
Category=QRVG
Chaos (cosmogony)
Christian demonology
Cosmogony
Covenant theology
Creation myth
Creator deity
Deicide
Deity
Demythologization
Deus otiosus
Deuteronomic Code
Dichotomy
Enthronement
Enuma Elis
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Eschatology
Evil demon
Evocation
Ex nihilo
Exegesis
Ezekiel
False prophet
God
Good and evil
Hebrew Bible
Heteronomy
Image of God
Impediment (canon law)
Israelites
Jargon
Jews
Justification (theology)
Marduk
Martyr
Melchizedek
Meshach
Midrash
Monotheism
Moses and Monotheism
Mutual exclusion
Myth and ritual
Neuroticism
Nisan
Omnipotence
Oppression
Paganism
Pelagianism
Priestly Code
Priestly source
Problem of evil
Psalm 104
Psalms
Rashi
Religion
Satan
Shadrach
Slavery
The Exodus
Theodicy
Theology
Theonomy
Theophany
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029504
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
Jon D. Levenson is Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
