TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuling,Kari H.
TI  - Thinking about God: Jewish views 
T2  - JPS essential Judaism series
SN  - 9780827618480
AV  - BM610 .T456 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - God (Judaism)
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 6.1. A Biblical View: Hannah Prays for a Son; 2; Cover --; Series Page --; Title Page --; Copyright Page --; Dedication --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part 1. Is God the Creator and Source of All Being-Including Evil? --; 1. What Does It Mean to Say That God Created the World? --; 1.1. A Biblical View: In the Image of God --; 1.2. From the Liturgy: God Renews Creation Day by Day --; 1.3. A Rabbinic View: The Trouble with Angels --; 1.4. A Medieval View: Ibn Pakuda's Logical Analysis --; 1.5. A Modern View: Green's Divine Helpmate --; 1.6. A Modern View: Kushner's Sermon --; 1.7. Summary of Views; 1.8. Meaning of the Seven-Day Creation Narrative --; 1.9. Intended Role of Humanity --; 2. How Does Evil Exist in a World with a Good God? --; 2.1. A Biblical View: Romping in the Garden of Eden --; 2.2. From the Liturgy: The Soul You Have Given Me Is Pure --; 2.3. A Rabbinic View: The Impulse to Good and the Impulse to Evil --; 2.4. A Medieval View: Maimonides on Adam's Sin --; 2.5. A Modern View: Cohen on God's Holiness --; 2.6. A Modern View: Kushner on Bad Things That Happen --; 2.7. Summary of Views --; 2.8. The Question of Free Will --; 2.9. Why Does God Allow Evil to Exist?; Part 2. Does God Have a Personality-or Is God an Impersonal Force? --; 3. Is God Like a Person? --; 3.1. A Biblical View: Moses Asks to Behold God's Presence --; 3.2. From the Liturgy: Forgiveness and God's Body --; 3.3. A Rabbinic View: Where Is God's Place? --; 3.4. A Medieval View: Maimonides and the Attributes of Action --; 3.5. A Modern View: Buber's Dialogic Approach --; 3.6. A Modern View: Green's Non-Dualism --; 3.7. Summary of Views --; 3.8. Thinking of God as a Person --; 3.9. Imagining a Personal God vs. Imagining God as an Impersonal Force --; 4. Does God Have a Gender?; 4.1. A Biblical View: What Does Gender Have to Do with It? --; 4.2. From the Liturgy: Our Father, Our King --; 4.3. A Rabbinic View: God's Fire and the Patriarchy --; 4.4. A Medieval View: Scholem Explains the Rise of the Shekhinah --; 4.5. A Modern View: Plaskow's Feminist Critique --; 4.6. A Modern View: Adler and the "Pudding Stone" --; 4.7. A Modern View: Falk's Poetic Rewrite --; 4.8. Summary of Views --; 4.9. Implications of Masculine Images of God --; 4.10. Rethinking the Meaning of Traditional Texts with Male Imagery --; 5. What Does It Mean to Declare God Is One?; 5.1. A Biblical View: Hear, O Israel --; 5.2. From the Liturgy: The Shema and Its Blessings --; 5.3. A Rabbinic View: A Deathbed Shema --; 5.4. A Medieval View: Maimonides' Meditation --; 5.5. A Modern View: Schneerson's Explicit Mysticism --; 5.6. A Modern View: Soloveitchik Is Ever the Rationalist --; 5.7. A Modern View: Schachter-Shalomi's Embodied Prayer --; 5.8. Summary of Views --; 5.9. The Meaning of Bearing Witness to God's Oneness --; 5.10. Praying as One (Community) --; Part 3. Does God Redeem-or Might God Not Redeem? --; 6. Does God Intervene in Our Lives?; 2; b
N2  - "Investigating how Jewish thinkers from the biblical to the postmodern era have approached questions about God-e.g, "Is God like a person?," "Is God good?," "Does God redeem?"--And highlighting interplays between texts over time, Tuling elucidates many contradictory and sophisticated ways to think about God in Jewish tradition"--
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