In the ancient Near East, when the gods detected gross impropriety
in their ranks, they subjected their own to trial. When mortals
suspect their gods of wrongdoing, do they have the right to put
them on trial? What lies behind the human endeavor to impose moral
standards of behavior on the gods? Is this effort an act of
arrogance, as Kant suggested, or a means of keeping theological
discourse honest? It is this question James Crenshaw seeks to
address in this wide-ranging study of ancient theodicies. Crenshaw
has been writing about and pondering the issue of theodicy - the
human effort to justify the ways of the gods or God - for many
years. In this volume he presents a synthesis of his ideas on this
perennially thorny issue. The result sheds new light on the history
of the human struggle with this intractable problem.
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