Divine Love in Classical Judaism

Classical Judaism depicts God in human terms. The human emotion of love is therefore imputed to God. Classical Judaism sees God and man as consubstantial, sharing in particular the same emotional traits. God has three major character traits, power, love, and justice. Power pertains to God’s creation...

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Published in:The review of rabbinic Judaism
Main Author: Neusner, Jacob 1932-2016 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Further subjects:B Divine love in Judaism God and Israel in Judaism Song of Songs Rabbah
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:Classical Judaism depicts God in human terms. The human emotion of love is therefore imputed to God. Classical Judaism sees God and man as consubstantial, sharing in particular the same emotional traits. God has three major character traits, power, love, and justice. Power pertains to God’s creation, control of history, and imposition of morality on human kind. Love invokes the imagery of family. Justice means God metes out measure for measure. What happens to human beings responds to the actions of the person who is subject to judgment, and fairness governs. All relationships come to their final resolution in the resurrection of the dead and the judgment of humanity for eternal life or eternal death.
ISSN:1570-0704
Contains:In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700704-12341265