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Notes on Judaism

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This summer, I took Northwestern’s Religion 230: Intro to Judaism. This post collects some of the more interesting things I learned in my reading.

This summer, I took Northwestern’s Religion 230: Intro to Judaism. This post collects some of the more interesting things I learned in my reading. The complicated theodicy of the Hebrew Bible The Tanakh’s theodicy would seem surprisingly complicated and modern to most newcomers. The most famous example is the Book of Job. God takes a “satan” up on a wager about whether piety disappears when it’s not met with material reward, and lets him torment a blameless man. Job loses his possessions, his livestock, his children, and is afflicted with painful boils from head to toe. At the end, God…

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