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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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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College
2003
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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 |
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