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Evil in Genesis: A Contextual Analysis of Hebrew Lexemes for Evil in the Book of Genesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Genesis of Evil. The book of Genesis recites the beginnings of the cosmos and its inhabitants. It also reveals the beginning of evil. Before long, evil infests God’s good creation. From there, good and evil coexist and drive the plot of Genesis. In Evil in Genesis, Ingrid Faro uncovers how the Bible’s first book presents the meaning of evil. Faro conducts a thorough examination of evil on...

Although Walther Eichrodt is not alone in finding the philosophical concept of theodicy as “foreign” to the Old Testament, stating, “theodicy was no fruit which had grown upon the tree of biblical faith in God, but was largely derived from Stoic-Neoplatonic world view,” we must reckon with this term made famous by Leibniz.48 Discussions on the religio-philosophical dilemma of God’s role in evil, suffering, and death generally focus on distinctions of moral evil, natural evil, and religious evil.49
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