Protest or pedagogy? Trivial sin and divine justice in rabbinic narrative

This study examines two classical rabbinic stories in which a person's premature death is attributed to an apparently trivial sin. One line of scholarly response views them as addressing challenges to accounts of divine justice, such that the appeal to the small sin is a complex attempt at theo...

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Main Author: Schofer, Jonathan Wyn (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: College 2003
In: Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 2003, Volume: 74, Pages: 243-278
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Justice
B Rabbinic literature
B Sin
B Idea of God
Parallel Edition:Electronic