Robert Gibbs, Elliot R. Wolfson

'The book's interdisciplinary approach to a topic of universal concern seems especially fruitful... There probably are few, if any, more universal and pressing subjects in Religious Studies than this...a superior collection of essays in terms of both theory and depth.'- Jeffrey J. Kripal, Vira I. Heinz Associate Professor of Religion, Harvard Divinity School

• Introduction, Robert Gibbs and Elliot R. Wolfson; 1. Robert Gibbs, Unjustifiable Suffering; 2. Steven Kepnes, Re-reading job as Textual Theodicy; 3. Cleo McNelly Kaerns, Suffering in Theory; 4. Pamela E. Klassen, The Scandal of Pain in Childbirth; 5. Elliot R. Wolfson, Divine Suffering and the Hermeneutics of Reading: Philosophical Reflections on Lurianic Mythology; 6. Graham Ward, Suffering and Incarnation; Epilogue: theology and Religious Studies

Robert Gibbs, Elliot R. Wolfson

'The book's interdisciplinary approach to a topic of universal concern seems especially fruitful... There probably are few, if any, more universal and pressing subjects in Religious Studies than this...a superior collection of essays in terms of both theory and depth.'- Jeffrey J. Kripal, Vira I. Heinz Associate Professor of Religion, Harvard Divinity School

• Introduction, Robert Gibbs and Elliot R. Wolfson; 1. Robert Gibbs, Unjustifiable Suffering; 2. Steven Kepnes, Re-reading job as Textual Theodicy; 3. Cleo McNelly Kaerns, Suffering in Theory; 4. Pamela E. Klassen, The Scandal of Pain in Childbirth; 5. Elliot R. Wolfson, Divine Suffering and the Hermeneutics of Reading: Philosophical Reflections on Lurianic Mythology; 6. Graham Ward, Suffering and Incarnation; Epilogue: theology and Religious Studies

Robert Gibbs, Elliot R. Wolfson

'The book's interdisciplinary approach to a topic of universal concern seems especially fruitful... There probably are few, if any, more universal and pressing subjects in Religious Studies than this...a superior collection of essays in terms of both theory and depth.'- Jeffrey J. Kripal, Vira I. Heinz Associate Professor of Religion, Harvard Divinity School

• Introduction, Robert Gibbs and Elliot R. Wolfson; 1. Robert Gibbs, Unjustifiable Suffering; 2. Steven Kepnes, Re-reading job as Textual Theodicy; 3. Cleo McNelly Kaerns, Suffering in Theory; 4. Pamela E. Klassen, The Scandal of Pain in Childbirth; 5. Elliot R. Wolfson, Divine Suffering and the Hermeneutics of Reading: Philosophical Reflections on Lurianic Mythology; 6. Graham Ward, Suffering and Incarnation; Epilogue: theology and Religious Studies