num_pages: 200
description: 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.
language: English
title: Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence
titlecomplete: Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence
genres: Old Testament, History, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Theology, Christian, Judaica, Christianity, Judaism, Religion
ratings_count: 138
publisher: Princeton University Press