Creation and the Persistence of Evil : The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence /
Jon D. Levenson
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1994
- xxxii, 182 p. ; 22 cm.
The Mastery of God and the Vulnerability of Order : The Basic ideas of Israelite religion? -- The Survival of chaos after the victory of God -- The Futurity and presence of the cosmogonic victory -- Conclusion : the vitality of evil and the fragility of creation -- The Alternation of Chaos and Order : Genesis 1:1-2:3 : creation without opposition : Psalm 104 -- Creation in seven days -- Cosmos and microcosm -- Rest and re- creation -- Conclusion : chaos neutralized in cult -- Creation and Covenant : The Dynamics of Lordship and Submission : The Two idioms of Biblical monotheism -- The Dialectic of covenantal theonomy -- Argument and obedience.