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Lehrende: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yemima Hadad
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: 01-Evangelische Theologie
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SE Judaistik
Fach:
Anrechenbar für:
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Deutsch
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung:
The question of Evil is an old theological problem, most famously identified with the book of Job. In Jewish tradition the experience of destruction, hurban, ignited vivid philosophical and theological debates about divine justice, human agency and the possibility of hope. This seminar introduces some key text from the Bible to the present on these enduring questions.
What is the meaning of suffering? Why is there evil in the world? How do rabbis and Jewish intellectuals think of evil after the shoah? Why does the righteous suffer (Zaddik ve Ra lo), what is the evil inclination
(yetzer hara), how does Jewish mysticism reconcile between the existence of evil and the existence of God? What are “afflictions of love” (Isurim shel ahava)? And what is the Jewish view on Theodicy? And can the righteous ruin the world?
Organisatorisches:
Zielgruppe:
D/KE, Lehramt, BA Judentum, Interessierte aller Studiengänge Seniorenstudium, Europastudium, Sonstige: Philosophie, Religionswissenschaft, cultural studies, English literature, usw.
Leistungsnachweis: Prüfungsleistungen sind entsprechend der Studien- und Prüfungsordnung zu erbringen.
Literatur:
Geschom scholem, Sitra Ahra: Good and Evil in the Kabbalah in: On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead
Margarete Susman, Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes
Martin Buber, “Images of Good and Evil”
Heschel, God in Search of Man
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Emmanuel Levinas, “Useless Suffering”
Jonas, Hans, “The concept of God after Auschwitz”
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, When Bad things happen to Good People
Susan Sonntag, Illness as Metaphor
Viktor Frankl, Man’s search for Meaning
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