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.
- ISBN10 0062319884
- ISBN13 9780062319883
- Publish Date 1 October 2013 (first published 19 December 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperOne
- Format eBook
- Pages 208
- Language English