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: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: HUC 2004
In: Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 2003, Volume: 74, Pages: 243-278
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic