The Protests of Job: An Interfaith Dialogue

Author:   Scott A. Davison ,  Shira Weiss ,  Sajjad Rizvi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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9783030953720


Pages:   110
Publication Date:   07 May 2022
Format:   Hardback
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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 Judaism’s 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 suggestionthat 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.

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Author:   Scott A. Davison ,  Shira Weiss ,  Sajjad Rizvi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.298kg
ISBN:  

9783030953720


ISBN 10:   3030953726
Pages:   110
Publication Date:   07 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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Scott A. Davison is Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University, USA. He is the author of On the Intrinsic Value of Everything (2011), Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation (2017), and God and Prayer (2022), and serves as the associate editor for the journal Faith and Philosophy. Shira Weiss teaches Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, USA. She is the author of Joseph Albo on Free Choice: Exegetical Innovation in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2017) and Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible (2018). Her current project explores the ethics of violence in biblical narrative. Sajjad Rizvi is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. A specialist on Islamic philosophical traditions since 1600, he is currently working on a monograph on philosophy in contemporary Iran.

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