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9780691029504

Creation and the Persistence of Evil

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  • ISBN13:

    9780691029504

  • ISBN10:

    0691029504

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-11-29
  • Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

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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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note on the Text (1994) xiii
Preface (1994) xv
Preface xxix
Part I THE MASTERY OF GOD AND THE VULNERABILITY OF ORDER
The Basic Idea of Israelite Religion?
3(11)
The Survival of Chaos After the Victory of God
14(12)
The Futurity and Presence of the Cosmogonic Victory
26(21)
Conclusion: The Vitality of Evil and the Fragility of Creation
47(6)
Part II THE ALTERNATION OF CHAOS AND ORDER---GENESIS 1:1-2:3
Creation Without Opposition: Psalm 104
53(13)
Creation in Seven Days
66(12)
Cosmos and Microcosm
78(22)
Rest and Re-Creation
100(21)
Conclusion: Chaos Neutralized in Cult
121(10)
Part III CREATION AND COVENANT: THE DYNAMICS OF LORDSHIP AND SUBMISSION
The Two Idioms of Biblical Monotheism
131(9)
The Dialectic of Covenantal Theonomy
140(9)
Argument and Obedience
149(8)
Notes 157(20)
Scripture Index 177(4)
Author Index 181

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