{"product_id":"thinking-about-good-and-evil-wayne-allen-9780827614710","title":"Thinking about Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity","description":"2022 Top Five Reference Book from Academy of Parish Clergy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The most comprehensive book on the topic, \u003ci\u003eThinking about Good and Evil \u003c\/i\u003etraces the most salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God's role in such matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Starting with the Bible and Apocrypha, Rabbi Wayne Allen takes us through the Talmud; medieval Jewish philosophers and Jewish mystical sources; the Ba'al Shem Tov and his disciples; early modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Luzzatto; and, finally, modern thinkers such as Cohen, Buber, Kaplan, and Plaskow. Each chapter analyzes individual thinkers' arguments and synthesizes their collective ideas on the nature of good and evil and questions of justice. Allen also exposes vastly divergent Jewish thinking about the Holocaust: traditionalist (e.g., Ehrenreich), revisionist (e.g., Rubenstein, Jonas), and deflective (e.g., Soloveitchik, Wiesel). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rabbi Allen's engaging, accessible volume illuminates well-known, obscure, and novel Jewish solutions to the problem of good and evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0827614713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780827614710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jewish Publication Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 7.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/2021","brand":"Wayne Allen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043191910655,"sku":"9780827614710","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94fe2d96-58ae-4462-a6cc-c6d65962fc0f.jpg?v=1684965759","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-about-good-and-evil-wayne-allen-9780827614710","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}