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<p>Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first expressed in the biblical stories of Abraham, Job, and Jeremiah. In <i>Pious Irreverence</i>, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age.<br><br>Weiss argues that this particul

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Author

Weiss, Dov

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812248357

Category

religious

Subjects

Judaism, Religion, Theology

Updated

2026-03-25