Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 41:2. David Birnbaum, God and Evil: A Jewish Perspective. Ktav, Hoboken, NJ, 1989. xxi, 266 pp. $20.00. Birnbaum surveys the various theodicies advanced by Jewish thinkers in ancient, medieval and modern times (especially in connection with the Holocaust), subjects these to criticism and then offers his own which, he claims,…
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