REL 324 THEODICY: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN ANCIENT JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

This course examines the ways in which ancient Jewish and Christian communities describe, explain and struggle with the issue of evil or “why bad things happen to good people.” Attention is given to different types of literary responses (prophetic, wisdom, historical, apocalyptic and martyrdom accounts). The course also attends to modern appropriations of these ancient traditions.

Credits

4 sh