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To an Impotent God: Images of Divine Impotence in Hebrew Scripture

To an Impotent God: Images of Divine Impotence in Hebrew Scripture sens~ ~eferring to the life which has been spilled upon the ground? The phrase which follows, n"!l~ U~Q n:J: 'l;I7~7 n'~~lIQ ~~01, is also ambiguous. It appears to mean something like "~nd he devised a plan so as not to let the one who has been banished remain banished from him.". (This is my translation as are all others unless otherwise noted.) 'Christoph Barth, Die Errettung vom Tode in dem individuellen Klage- und Danklieden des Alten Testamentes (Basil, 1947), p. 69. 'See Genesis 1:2. It should be no surprise, therefore, that the death question 6 should . form the scaffold around which Hebrew Scripture takes shape. 7 But why 6"Why in the presence of god is there death?" In more traditional circles, this is the theodicy question. Perhaps most concretely embodied in the book of Job, the theodicy question is born at the point where the innocent and the righteous die in the· presence of the silence of god. Further, because the innocent suffer and die in the presence of a silent god, we are left with a limited number of choices: 1. No one is righteous before the law, in which case god might be just, but http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

To an Impotent God: Images of Divine Impotence in Hebrew Scripture

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sens~ ~eferring to the life which has been spilled upon the ground? The phrase which follows, n"!l~ U~Q n:J: 'l;I7~7 n'~~lIQ ~~01, is also ambiguous. It appears to mean something like "~nd he devised a plan so as not to let the one who has been banished remain banished from him.". (This is my translation as are all others unless otherwise noted.) 'Christoph Barth, Die Errettung vom Tode in dem individuellen Klage- und Danklieden des Alten Testamentes (Basil, 1947), p. 69. 'See Genesis 1:2. It should be no surprise, therefore, that the death question 6 should . form the scaffold around which Hebrew Scripture takes shape. 7 But why 6"Why in the presence of god is there death?" In more traditional circles, this is the theodicy question. Perhaps most concretely embodied in the book of Job, the theodicy question is born at the point where the innocent and the righteous die in the· presence of the silence of god. Further, because the innocent suffer and die in the presence of a silent god, we are left with a limited number of choices: 1. No one is righteous before the law, in which case god might be just, but

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press

Published: Oct 3, 1993

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