Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence

faith-and-doubt

• the Sea has burst out of its appointed place, Leviathan has slipped his hook, and the covenant that ensures order has been dishonored. All is not lost.

  CPEJ-RC-035

• Leviathan that You formed to sport with — the old myth of the Chaoskampf altogether sanitized, or the play of God with the monster involves something darker.

  CPEJ-RC-032

• 'A new Torah will go forth from Me' — the eschatological banquet requires a renewal of Torah to accommodate what the old order could not permit.

  CPEJ-RC-049

obedience-and-authority

• they express both the necessity and the absurdity of a person's telling God what to do — the justice of human protest and the inherent limitation upon that right.

  CPEJ-RC-158

• the bond between the exaltation of the deity and the imperial politics of his earthly seat is patent. David is YHWH's vicar on Earth.

  CPEJ-RC-038

mortality

• Oh, let Your dead revive! Let corpses arise! — resurrection here as the logical consequence of the defeat of Death, not yet a doctrine of general resurrection.

  CPEJ-RC-045